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New Zealand's Muslims and Multiculturalism
BRILL 2009; US$ 176.00Issues of integration, multiculturalism and policies of ethnic and religious minority rights have gained greatly in significance in recent years, especially in relation to Muslims. This book deals with the Muslim minority in New Zealand, with special emphasis on policy aspects relevant to the integration of Muslims in the host society. The book also... more...
DECOLONIZING CONSERVATION
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people’s lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and attempts to decolonize... more...
Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, 1850-1930
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 45.00This book makes an original contribution to the growing body of knowledge on the Scots abroad, presenting a coherent and comprehensive account of the Scottish immigrant experience in New Zealand. more...
Once Were Pacific
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 68.00Native identity is usually associated with a particular place. But what if that place is the ocean? Once Were Pacific explores this question as it considers how Māori and other Pacific peoples frame their connection to the ocean, to New Zealand, and to each other through various creative works. Māori scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville shows... more...
Mana Maori
Leiden University Press 2010; US$ 37.50The discovery of New Zealand, the last place on earth to be peopled, is surrounded by myths. Maori Mana: de kracht van de oorspronkelijke bewoners van Nieuw-Zeeland takes you on a journey exploring the histories of the country's first Polynesian discoverers, its encounters with Europeans and the subsequent settling by Westerners. Particular attention... more...
The Maori
The Edwin Mellen Press 2009; US$ 169.95This is a translation from the original Italian of the work of Dom Felice Vaggioli, an Italian Benedictine monk sent by his Order in 1879 to New Zealand. A Papal directive in 1883 asking missionaries to gather artifacts and information concerning indigenous peoples prompted and encouraged Vaggioli to extend and deepen his earlier studies of New Zealand.... more...
Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937
Boydell & Brewer 2005; US$ 99.00An innovative and original contribution to the history of European migration between the mid-nineteenth century and the interwar years. more...
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