McCarthy, Conal (Author)
In 1929, pirana Ngata published an article titled Anthropology and the government of native races in the Pacific. This would appear to confirm the link between anthropology and the rule of indigenous populations in New Zealand and its Pacific empire, but the evidence presented in this article suggests a more complex situation. This paper examines the empirical anthropology of Ngata and Peter Buck and the ways in which their activities reshaped the policy and practice of the Department of Native Affairs between 1920 and 1935, particularly through the notion of cultural adjustments or adaptation. Archival research reveals that behind the activities of the Dominion Museum, the Polynesian Society and its Journal was a M ori-led body, the Board of M ori Ethnological Research, which redirected government collecting, research and publication from salvage to the maintenance and revival of M ori cultural heritage in the service of tribal social and economic development. Seen through the theoretical framework of assemblage theory, we can see how a malleable idea of culture was employed in social governance in quite different ways to the colonial governmentality at work in other settler colonies at this time. The paper argues that this form of anthropological governance effectively de-territorialized state institutions, thereby creating a distinctive space for the native exterior to the nation.
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