Political Expression And Ethnicity. Statecraft And Mobilisation In The Maori World.

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
Publisher Place: Westport
Publisher Year: 1993
Edition: First Edition

Description: 222 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. In 1865 James E Ritchie Argued That The Concept Of Pan-maori Nationalism, Entertained At That Time By New Zealand Scholars,was A Myth, 'sustained By The Appearace Of Co Operation On Customary Occasions And By A Limited Reciprocity Between Restricted Sets Of Residents In Local Groups Or Kinship Networks'.

Publishers Description: Hazlehurst explores the political importance of ethnicity for a minority indigenous population, the Maori of New Zealand. Drawing on close ethnographical observation and extensive interviews with key participants, Kayleen Hazlehurst provides a comprehensive narrative and analysis of the creation of the Mana Motuhake party and its formative electoral experiences. Hazlehurst places the emergence of the party in the early 1980s in the context of historical patterns of resistance and cooperation with the European majority. Modern political networks, leadership styles, mobilization strategies, ideologies, political rhetoric and symbology are examined. The study provides an overview of the contested nature of Maori ethnicity and of conflicting modern and traditional loyalties.

ISBN: 0275944581