Article ID: CBB001201575

The Politics of Knowledge: Anthropology and Māori Modernity in Mid-Twentieth-Century New Zealand (2013)

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This article argues that growing confidence in anthropology as a tool for managing the adaptation of a resurgent M ori population to modernity shaped a politics of knowledge regarding New Zealand's indigenous people in the mid-twentieth century. We examine the relationship between anthropological discourse, state policy, and the M ori struggle to uphold traditional ways, through the prism of Ernest and Pearl Beaglehole's psycho-ethnographic study entitled Some Modern M oris (Beaglehole, E., and P. Beaglehole. 1946. Some Modern M oris. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research). This paper demonstrates that the study was the product of a nexus between concerns for M ori welfare, a perceived need for empirical research that could be applied to the problem of indigenous adjustment to contemporary conditions, and American philanthropy. For this reason, and as a detailed record of a small community when M ori society was on the cusp of post-Second World War transformations, we contend that the study deserves to be recovered from historical obscurity.

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Authors & Contributors
Rowse, Tim
McCarthy, Conal
Alison Jones
Ellinghaus, Katherine
Kuni Jenkins
Karen Fisher
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Anthropology
Maori (New Zealand people)
Science and culture
Science and politics
Colonialism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
Places
New Zealand
Australia
United States
China
Great Lakes (North America)
Islands of the Pacific
Institutions
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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