ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Studies in Maori Rites and Myths. J. PRYTZ JOHANSEN
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 61, Heft 5, S. 910-910
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 61, Heft 5, S. 910-910
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 58, Heft 3, S. 581-581
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Social identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 417-434
ISSN: 1363-0296
In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Forthcoming)
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In: Modern intellectual history: MIH, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 157-187
ISSN: 1479-2451
The second Māori student to enrol at the University of Oxford, Makereti studied anthropology in the intellectual epicentre of the British Empire from 1927 to 1930, participating in transnational academic networks by writing about her own people. Her work was published posthumously as The Old-Time Maori, now acclaimed as an unprecedented work of Māori auto-ethnography. Exploring a forgotten seam of revisionist anthropology, this article argues that reappraisals of Makereti have failed to capture the magnitude of her project of Indigenous resistance writing. Through close reading of Makereti's personal papers and published work, this article uncovers the targeted revisionism of Makereti's scholarship—in particular identifying the unnamed targets of her critique—and how she used the epistemic tools of imperial and salvage anthropology to challenge colonial discourses about Māori. Makereti's engagement with Oxford illuminates Indigenous adaptation of a discipline and institutions often portrayed as sites of incorrigibly imperialist ideology.