Entanglements Of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, And The Question Of The Body
by Tony Ballantyne /
2014 / English / PDF
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The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in
1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic
entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in
missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had
far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing
cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and
practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he
identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of
cultural engagement, with Māori and missionaries struggling over
hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality.
The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in
1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic
entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in
missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had
far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing
cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and
practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he
identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of
cultural engagement, with Māori and missionaries struggling over
hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality.Entanglements of Empire
Entanglements of Empire is particularly concerned with
how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel,
kitchen, and farmyard, Māori and the English mutually influenced
each other’s worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand’s
formal colonization, this book offers an important contribution
to debates over religion and empire.
is particularly concerned with
how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel,
kitchen, and farmyard, Māori and the English mutually influenced
each other’s worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand’s
formal colonization, this book offers an important contribution
to debates over religion and empire.
