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Book SynopsisSustaining Indigeneity in New Zealand is a revised collection of ten essays by Steven Webster, all written since 1998. Collectively they address national policies and indigeneity movements through a lens of class inequality. Webster describes efforts to assimilate the Maori since the advent of neoliberal policies in the 1980s, with a particular focus on the ways the Maori and their supporters have resisted or subverted these policies.
Topics covered include: how an idealised version of Maori culture obscured assimilation of the Maori in the 1850s; the Maori renaissance of the later twentieth century; neoliberal subversion of Maori fishing rights; the struggles of Nai Tuhoe, who won control of their ancestral lands under a benevolent administration, lost it under a predatory successor, but then finally regained it in 2014; and commodity fetishism and the ways commodification is resisted and even turned back against the government by the Maori.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents – List of Figures – List of Tables – Preface – A Note on Translations – Acknowledgements – About the Author – Contemporary Māori Society and the Other Side of Māori Culture [1998] – Māori Hapū as a Whole Way of Struggle: 1840–50s before the Land Wars [1998] – Māori Retribalisation and Treaty Rights to the New Zealand Fisheries [2002] – Urewera Kinship and Land, 1894–1926: Some Preliminary Conclusions [2002] – Māori Kinship and Power: Ngāi Tūhoe 1894–1912 [2017] – Ōhāua Te Rangi and Reconciliation in Te Urewera, 1913–1983 [2019] – Māori Indigeneity and Commodity Fetishism [2016] – Māori Indigeneity and the Ontological Turn in Ethnography [2019] – Whakamoana-ed (“Set Adrift”)? Tūhoe Māori Confront Commodification, 1894–1926 [2021] – Biculturalism and Māori Indigeneity in Aotearoa/New Zealand – Socio-economic Class and Domestication of the Māori – Summary – References – Index.
