Fragments
Subtitle: New Zealand social & cultural history
By: edited by Bronwyn Dalley and Bronwyn Labrum.
Contributors: Dalley, Bronwyn, 1963-; Labrum, Bronwyn.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: New Zealand -- Social life and customs.; New Zealand -- Civilization.
Description: This collection of essays presents a new generation of historians and covers a wide range of historical subjects, from Maori social history in Taranki to post-World War II fashion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining our pasts / Michael Reilly; title: M⁻a pango m⁻a whero ka oti / Danny Keenan; title: Surveying space / Giselle Byrnes; title: Domesticating the land / Katherine Raine; title: Body and soul / Margaret McClure; title: Textual museums / Chris Hilliard; title: The cultural remains of Elsie Walker / Bronwyn Dalley; title: Opening the wardrobe of history / Fiona McKergow; title: Persistent needs and expanding desires / Bronwyn Labrum; title: Street-level chemistry / Gavin McLean.