Patrons of Maori culture
Subtitle: power, theory, and ideology in the Maori renaissance
By: Steven Webster.
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people) -- Ethnic identity.; Maori (New Zealand people) -- Social life and customs.; Maori (New Zealand people) -- History.; Ethnology -- New Zealand -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-272) and index.
"Earlier versions of some of these chapters have been published separately"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Culture. 1. Contemporary Maori society and the other side of Maori culture; title: 2. Finding Maori culture on Easter Island; title: Pt. II. History. 3. Theories of Maoritanga in the 1920s; title: 4. Ralph Piddington and the anthropological concept of culture in New Zealand; title: 5. Maori Hapuu and their history; title: Pt. III. University. 6. Maori studies and the concept of Maori culture, 1972-93; title: 7. Marae artworks and the reproduction of Maori ethnicity; title: 8. The postmodernisation of Maori culture.