Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand

Paperback

Main Details

Title Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Angela Wanhalla
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:316
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 170
ISBN/Barcode 9781869407315
ClassificationsDewey:306.8460993
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Auckland University Press
Imprint Auckland University Press
Publication Date 30 August 2013
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

In the history of intimate relations between Maori and Pakeha, public policy and private life are woven together. Matters of the Heart reveals much about how Maori and Pakeha have lived together in this country and our changing attitudes to race, marriage and intimacy. That history runs from whalers and traders marrying into Maori families in the nineteenth century through to the growth of interracial marriages in the later twentieth. It stretches from common law marriages and Maori customary marriages to formal arrangements recognised by church and state. And it runs the gamut of official reactions - from condemnation of immorality or racial treason to celebration of our unique intermarriage patterns as a sign of us being 'one people' with the 'best race relations in the world'.

Author Biography

Angela Wanhalla is a Kai Tahu historian and senior lecturer in history at the University of Otago. She is the author of In/visible Sight: The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand and co-editor of Early New Zealand Photography: Images and Texts.