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Te Puna - a New Zealand mission station : historical archaeology in New Zealand
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ISBN: 9780387776224 0387776206 9780387776200 1441926593 9786612037764 1282037765 0387776222 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer,

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Abstract

Evangelical missionary societies have been associated with the processes of colonization throughout the globe, from North America to India, Africa, and into the Pacific. In late eighteenth century Britain the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (CMS) began its missionary ventures, and in the early nineteenth century sent three of its members to New Zealand, then an unknown, little-explored part of the world. This book anthropologizes the processes of missionization, presenting a case study of the New Zealand CMS mission station, Te Puna, settled in 1832 following the closure of New Zealand’s first mission, established in 1814. The historical archaeology of Te Puna demonstrates the particularities of one outpost of early nineteenth century British colonization, but its story resonates around the globe, reflecting local differences as well as common patterns in missionization. In all mission types, domesticity is revealed as a central, unifying concern of the ‘civilizing mission’; other themes of interaction with indigenous peoples, household economy, the development of commerce, and social and gender relations were played out. Across the globe, a common material culture traveled with its evangelizing (and colonizing) settlers, with artifacts appearing as cultural markers from Cape Town in South Africa, to Tasmania and Victoria in Australia, and the even more remote Bay of Islands in New Zealand. This book brings to life the Te Puna mission: a simple, rural household, where the larger dramas of settlement, colonization, and culture contact are clearly reflected in the archaeological and archival records. At the same time, the processes of missionization within New Zealand are placed within the wider framework of evangelical efforts in other parts of the world in the early nineteenth century.

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Social Sciences. --- Archaeology. --- Anthropology. --- Social sciences. --- Sciences sociales --- Anthropologie --- Archéologie --- Church Missionary Society. --New Zealand Mission --History --19th century. --- Material culture --New Zealand --History. --- New Zealand --Antiquities. --- New Zealand --Colonization. --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania --- History & Archaeology --- History --- History. --- Church Missionary Society. --- New Zealand --- Antiquities. --- Colonization. --- Nya Zeeland --- Aotearoa --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandii︠a︡ --- Nowa Zelandia --- Nouvelle-Zélande --- Nu Ziland --- Niu-hsi-lan --- Novzelando --- Nyū Jīrando --- Neu-Seeland --- Nieu-Seeland --- Новая Зеландыя --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandyi︠a︡ --- Novi Zeland --- Нова Зеландия --- Nova Zelandii︠a︡ --- Nova Zelanda --- Nový Zéland --- Neuseeland --- Seland Newydd --- Uus-Meremaa --- Νέα Ζηλανδία --- Nea Zēlandia --- Nueva Zelanda --- Nueva Zelandia --- Nov-Zelando --- Zeelanda Berria --- Nýsæland --- Nýja-Sjáland --- Nuova Zelanda --- ניו זילנד --- Nyu Ziland --- N.Z. (New Zealand) --- NZ --- ニュージーランド --- Nyūjīrando --- Religion. --- Religious Studies. --- Religious Studies, general. --- New Zealand Church Missionary Association --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Human beings --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Antiquities --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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