Title Tears of Rangi : experiments across worlds / Anne Salmond

Published Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2017 ©2017

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MELB	305.800993 Sal/Ror		AVAILABLE

Description xi, 511 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, facsimiles ; 24 cm Contents Part one: Early encounters. 1769-1840 -- Part two: Rivers, land, sea and people Summary "Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remote, beautiful archipelago, settlers from Polynesia and Europe (and elsewhere) have clashed and forged alliances, they have fiercely debated what is real and what is common sense, what is good and what is right. In this, her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide. Beginning with a fine-grained inquiry into the early period of encounters between Maori and Europeans in New Zealand (1769-1840), Salmond then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life; waterways, land, the sea and people"--Inside dust jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-483) and index Subject Cosmology, Maori. Human ecology -- New Zealand. Maori (New Zealand people) -- History. Maori (New Zealand people) -- Social life and customs. Natural resources -- Social aspects -- New Zealand. Maori (New Zealand people) -- First contact with Europeans. Ontology. SUBJECT New Zealand http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021322 -- Colonization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562 New Zealand http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021322 -- Ethnic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 New Zealand http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021322 -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646 New Zealand -- History -- To 1840. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091504 New Zealand -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116351 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 ISBN 1869408659 9781869408657

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