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Houses and hopes: Urban Marae and the indigenization of modernity in New Zealand.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Houses and hopes: Urban Marae and the indigenization of modernity in New Zealand./
Author:	Rosenblatt, Daniel.
Description:	477 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2542.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3097155

Houses and hopes: Urban Marae and the indigenization of modernity in New Zealand.
Rosenblatt, Daniel.

Houses and hopes: Urban Marae and the indigenization of modernity in New Zealand. - 477 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2542.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2003.

This dissertation is an ethnographic and historical account of the revival of traditional culture by indigenous New Zealanders, who today live mainly in cities, intermingled with the descendants of colonial settlers and immersed in a globally connected world. It is concerned with how we can understand Maori claims to have sought and maintained some sort of cultural distinctiveness in this context, and thus ultimately with whether and how anthropologists can locate and describe cultural orders in the contemporary world. In the dissertation, I focus on one institution, the marae, a complex of buildings centered on an elaborately carved meeting house that is thought of by Maori as an ancestor. Marae have long been central to rural, “traditional,” Maori life, but recently there has been an explosion of marae construction, mainly in cities. Marae have come to play a key role in Maori attempts to regain their land, to preserve their language, and to win a place for their “culture” at the center of contemporary New Zealand life. Why are these houses the focus of struggle? I answer that question by showing how houses became institutionalized in the second half of the nineteenth century as a response to a crisis centering on the loss of Maori land and a decrease in the ability of chiefs to organize production and exercise leadership. In the wake of this crisis, houses emerged as both sites and emblems of Maori community life. Symbolically rich, the houses reflect and embody traditional conceptions of persons, groups, and the cosmos—they are inventions that are nevertheless outgrowths of tradition. Their presence today in settings that would otherwise be understood as belonging solely to the world of global modernity reframes those settings, helping to maintain a distinct Maori world. Through practices and rituals associated with meeting houses, contemporary Maori succeed in emphasizing the continued relevance of the conceptions embodied in the houses. At the same time, they make themselves into people whose political activity also reflects and embodies those conceptions. “Culture” is not merely the form their aspirations take: it shapes the aspirations and the people who hold them

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