Author: John Stenhouse Publisher: ATF Press ISBN: 9781920691332 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
For much of the twentieth century, New Zealand historians, like most Western scholars, largely took it for granted that as modernity waxed religion would wane. Secularization--the fading into insignificance of religion--would distinguish the modern era from previous ages. Until the 1980s, only a handful of scholars around the world raised serious empirical and theoretical questions about a Grand Theory that had become central to the self-understanding of the social sciences and of the modern world. Heated debates since then, and the unmistakable resurgence of world religions, have raised fundamental questions about the empirical and theoretical adequacy of secularization theory, and especially about how far it applies outside Europe. This volume revisits New Zealand history when secularization is no longer taken for granted as the Only Big Story that illuminates the country's social and cultural history. Contributors explore how New Zealanders' diverse religious and spiritual traditions have shaped practical, everyday concerns in politics, racial and ethnic relations, science, the environment, family life, gender relations, and other domains.
Author: Angela Wanhalla Publisher: Bridget Williams Books ISBN: 1927131057 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 239
Book Description
In/visible Sight is a fascinating exploration of a little-known part of our history: the lives of part-Māori, part-Pākehā New Zealanders in the nineteenth century. Focussing on interracial intimacy between Ngāi Tahu and Pākehā settlers, it explores how intermarriage played a key role in shaping colonial encounters. As Ngāi Tahu sought to fight the alienation of their land and protect their natural resources, marriage practices and kinship networks became an increasingly important way to control interaction with Pākehā. The book also explores the contradictions and ambiguities of mixed-descent lives, offering new insights into New Zealand’s colonial past.
Author: P. Ashton Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230234461 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
Book Description
In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.
Author: Jeremy Salmond Publisher: Raupo ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
They appear everywhere in the New Zealand landscape, a wonderfully distinctive collection of older houses of all shapes and sizes, built along the street of cities and small towns, and across farming hillsides and by country roads. This book is both a history and a celebration of New Zealand's magnificent old houses, and a clear and approachable account of how these houses were built and inhabited.
Author: Bruce Biggs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Buxas (Indic people) Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
"In this monograph Professor Biggs has collated material on Maori marriage from many sources, including much unpublished Maori text. This material has been critically assessed in the light of modern anthropological theories. Professor Biggs places the institution of marriage in its wider social context, and discusses also the sexual and procreative aspects of marriage"--Dust jacket.
Author: Hilda Kean Publisher: ISBN: Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
In recent years Public History the engagement with history now has grown in Britain. Visits to heritage sites, museums and galleries are packed with enthusiasts. In this collection, the contributors write about history as part of a living present which is re-created, contested and challenged. The starting points are places, people and images the writers encounter in their everyday lives. They have a commitment to those whose lives are still excluded from historical practice and their essays blur the boundaries between history, art, culture and everyday life.
Author: Hilda Kean Publisher: Rivers Oram Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
The melodramatic and romantic clichÉs that pervade popular conceptions of working-class Londoners in the 19th and 20th century are debunked in this innovative exposÉ of proletariat London. The individual stories of muted historical figures, including an illiterate silk weaver, a grandmother in an asylum, a deserted family, an abused daughter, and a dead child, are brought to light through interpretations of the scraps they left behind—gravestone inscriptions, photographs and certificates, the grimy contents of hidden cubbyholes, and even childhood recollections that have been passed down through the generations. The unusual contents of these stories intertwine to evoke a haunting and original picture of working-class London that adds a much-needed, though bleak facet to the city's social history.
Author: John Stenhouse
Author: Angela Wanhalla
Author: P. Ashton
Author: Jeremy Salmond
Author: Edward Shortland
Author: Bruce Biggs
Author: Hilda Kean
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Author: William Ewart Gladstone
Author: Hilda Kean