Entanglements of Empire
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Entanglements of Empire

Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body

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Entanglements of Empire

Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body

About this book

The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with M?ori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential M?ori 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 the physical body as the most contentious site of cultural engagement, with M?ori and missionaries struggling over hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. Entanglements of Empire is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, M?ori and the English mutually influenced each other's worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand's formal colonization, this book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and empire.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction. Bodies in Contact, Bodies in Question
  4. Chapter One. Exploration, Empire, and Evangelization
  5. Chapter Two. Making Place, Reordering Space
  6. Chapter Three. Economics, Labor, and Time
  7. Chapter Four. Containing Transgression
  8. Chapter Five. Cultures of Death
  9. Chapter Six. The Politics of the “Enfeebled” Body
  10. Conclusion. Bodies and the Entanglements of Empire
  11. Notes
  12. Glossary
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index