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This book takes you on a journey exploring the histories of the country's first Polynesian discoverers, its encounters with Europeans and the subsequent settling by Westerners. Particular attention will be paid to the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and the Dutch immigration wave of the 1950s. Through a discussion of the meeting house and meeting grounds, the relationships Maori maintain to the land will be considered. The vital role of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) and its present-day repercussions will be looked at. Finally the role of taonga or cultural treasures embodying the ancestral identity of a Maori kin group in relation to particular lands and resources will be explained. - Dit boek neemt de lezer mee op een reis langs de eerste Polynesische ontdekkers, hun ontmoetingen met de Europeanen en de daaropvolgende vestiging van Westerlingen. Bijzondere aandacht is er voor de ontdekkingsreiziger Abel Tasman en de stroom Nederlandse immigranten in de jaren '50. Aan de hand van hun ontmoetingshuizen en -plaatsen wordt de speciale relatie van de Maori met hun land geïllustreerd. De sleutelrol van het Verdrag van Waitangi (1840) met zijn hedendaagse uitwerking wordt beschouwd en tenslotte is er aandacht voor de rol van taonga, de cultuurschatten die de voorouderlijke identiteit belichamen van een Maorigeslacht in relatie tot hun land en hun middelen.

This book takes you on a journey exploring the histories of the country's first Polynesian discoverers, its encounters with Europeans and the subsequent settling by Westerners. Particular attention will be paid to the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and the Dutch immigration wave of the 1950s. Through a discussion of the meeting house and meeting grounds, the relationships Maori maintain to the land will be considered. The vital role of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) and its present-day repercussions will be looked at. Finally the role of taonga or cultural treasures embodying the ancestral identity of a Maori kin group in relation to particular lands and resources will be explained.

Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of knowledge, his exemplary mentorship of generations of younger scholars and his generosity in facilitating the progress of others. The diverse collection produced by former students, current colleagues and long-term peers provides reflections on his legacy as well as fresh anthropological insights from Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Inspired by Nicolas Peterson's work in Aboriginal Australia and his broad ranging contributions to anthropology over several decades, the contributors to this volume celebrate the variety of his ethnographic interests. Individual chapters address, revisit, expand on, and ethnographically re-examine his work about ritual, material culture, the moral domestic economy, land and ecology. The volume also pays homage to Nicolas Peterson's ability to provide focused research with long-term impact, exemplified by a series of papers engaging with his work on demand sharing and the applied policy domain

This rich ethnography analyses coastal protection as a sociomaterial practice. Coastal protection, Friederike Gesing argues, coproduces natural and cultural orders. In the context of the Aotearoa New Zealand coast, it follows the emergence of a new sociotechnical imaginary: coastal management working »with nature« - and not against it. The analysis of a seawall controversy and of different coastal protection projects shows how »soft« protection slowly takes hold. Dune restoration volunteers, coastal management experts, surfer-scientists, and Maori conservationists engage in different practices of making coastal naturecultures: dune restoration as do-it-yourself erosion control, reconstructing native nature, or soft engineering »in concert with natural processes«.

Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography), and theories of how knowledge is produced in museums on a wide range of digital projects. Swooping from Ethnographic to Decorative Arts Collections, from the Google Art Project to bespoke digital experiments, Haidy Geismar explores the object lessons contained in digital form and asks what they can tell us about both the past and the future. Drawing on the author's extensive experience working with collections across the world, Geismar argues for an understanding of digital media as material, rather than immaterial, and advocates for a more nuanced, ethnographic and historicised view of museum digitisation projects than those usually adopted in the celebratory accounts of new media in museums. By locating the digital as part of a longer history of material engagements, transformations and processes of translation, this book broadens our understanding of the reality effects that digital technologies create, and of how digital media can be mobilised in different parts of the world to very different effects.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction: Aryanism and the Webs of Empire -- 1 The Emergence of Aryanism: Company Orientalism, Colonial Governance and Imperial Ethnology -- Trade to dominion: the birth of Company Orientalism -- Language and colonial power -- Patronage and the institutional basis of colonial knowledge -- Sir William Jones, Sanskrit and human origins -- Language and cultural comparison -- Colebrook and the Vedic golden age -- The impact of Sanskritocentrism -- Indocentrism: the Scottish Enlightenment in 'Further India' -- Orientalism, the Irish Enlightenment and settler self-fashioning -- Prichardian ethnology and the Anglo-Saxon revival -- Max Müller and the Aryan theory -- Aryans, India and 1857 -- Aryanism as an ethnological tool -- Regional variation and the limits of racialization: Punjab -- Conclusion -- 2 Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation -- Pacific exploration and the question of origins -- The Semitic Maori? -- Richard Taylor and the emergence of Indocentrism -- Indocentrism consolidated: Edward Shortland -- Colonial science and philology -- J. T. Thomson and the 'Barata' race -- Tregear and the Aryan Maori -- Conflict, consensus and synthesis: Indocentrism 1885-c. 1930 -- The death of Indocentrism: racial origins and the rise of nationalism -- Conclusion -- 3 Systematizing Religion: from Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa -- 'Religion' -- Presence and absence: Tahiti and New Zealand -- A discourse of negation: the search for Maori religion -- Missionary ethnography -- Affirmation: religion in India -- The structure of Brahmanical Hinduism: vaidik and laukik -- Evangelical critiques of Hinduism -- The 'jungle': Hinduism and ethnography -- Sikhism: Nanak and the Indian 'Reformation' -- Dissenting voices: Evangelical attacks on Sikhism.

Intro -- Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sociality as Figure -- Chapter 3. Fighting Hierarchy -- Chapter 4. Landscapes of Sociality -- Chapter 5. Disentangling the Butubutu of New Georgia -- Chapter 6. Pathway and Side -- Chapter 7. Making Sides -- Chapter 8. 'The Other Kind' -- Chapter 9. 'Maori are Different, but We are Similar for Particular Reasons' -- Chapter 10. Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Index

Culture and sustainable development in the Pacific --The ocean in us --On the anthropology of modernity; or, some triumphs of culture over despondency theory --Gender, culture and sustainable development--the Pacific Way --Governance, development and leadership in Polynesia: a microstudy from Samoa --Rumble in the jungle: land, culture and (un)sustainable logging in Solomon Islands --Knowing about culture: the handling of social issues at resource projects in Papua New Guinea --Culture and sustainable marine resource development in the Pacific --Fisheries resource-use culture in Fiji and its implications --Local hierarchies of authority and development --A paradox of tradition in a modernising society: chiefs and political development in Fiji --Development and Maori society: building from the centre or the edge? --Culturally and ecologically sustainable tourism development through local community management --Tourism and culture: a sustainable partnership --Vaka Moana--a road map for the South Pacific economy --Vaka Moana--the ocean roads --Afterword: after the World Decade.

Intro -- Intercultural Discourse and Communication: The Essential Readings -- Contents -- Notes on Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Approaches to Intercultural Discourse -- Introduction -- 1 Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life: Toward a Descriptive Theory -- 2 Ethnography of Speaking: Toward a Linguistics of the Praxis -- 3 Interethnic Communication -- 4 Communication in a Multilingual Society: Some Missed Opportunities -- 5 Linguistic Etiquette -- 6 Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective -- 7 Norms of Sociocultural Meaning in Language: Indexicality, Stance, and Cultural Models -- Discussion Questions -- Part II: Intercultural Communication: Case Studies -- Introduction -- 8 Why Tell Stories? Contrasting Themes and Identities in the Narratives of Maori and Pakeha Women and Men -- 9 New York Jewish Conversational Style -- 10 Swedishness as an Obstacle in Cross-Cultural Interaction -- 11 The Presence and Absence of Speech in the Communication of Gender -- 12 Hearing What's Not Said and Missing What Is: Black Language in White Public Space -- 13 Pronouns of Address in Swedish: Social Class Semantics and a Changing System -- 14 Off-Record Indirectness and the Notion of Imposition -- 15 Cultural Differences in Framing: American and Japanese Group Discussions -- Discussion Questions -- Part III: Cultural Contact: Issues of Identity -- Introduction -- 16 Learning Language/Learning Self -- 17 The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans -- 18 Biculturalism: Some Reflections and Speculations -- Discussion Questions -- Part IV: Implications -- Introduction -- 19 A Comparison of Indian and Anglo Communicative Behavior in Classroom Interaction -- 20 Beyond Difference and Domination? Intercultural Communication in Legal Contexts -- Discussion Questions -- Index.