Histories, power and loss
Subtitle: uses of the past : a New Zealand commentary
By: edited by Andrew Sharp and Paul McHugh
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people); Historiography; Treaty of Waitangi
Description: This work is about what people do when they produce histories about the past, and what some New Zealanders have done when they have recounted parts of their country's past. The contributors write of legal claims and consitiutional doubt, and document some of the claims process and its consequences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-250).
Table of contents: title: Future behind us : the Waitangi Tribunal's retrospective utopia  -- W.H. Oliver; title: Recent juridical and constitutional histories of Maori  -- Andrew Sharp; title: Matauranga Maori as an epistemology  -- Te Maire Tau; title: Treaty between histories  -- J.G.A. Pocock; title: Pursuit of modernity in Maori society : the conceptual bases of citizenship in the early colonial period  -- Lyndsay Head; title: Innocence of history? : the case of the 'Morioris' of Te Wai Pounamu a.k.a. the 'Waitaha Nation'  -- Angela Ballara; title: Te Umutaoroa : The Earth Oven of Long Cooking  -- Judith Binney; title: Writings on colonial New Zealand : nationalism and intentionality  -- Mark Francis; title: History of Crown sovereignty in New Zealand -- P.G. McHugh.