Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body

by Tony Ballantyne and Tony Ballantyne

Book Overview

The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he identifies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358263
• ISBN13: 9780822358268
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"