Tarara: Croats and Maori in New Zealand : Memory, Belonging, Identity"At the turn of the twentieth century, Croatians were migrating from Dalmatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Maori, having become part of the British Empire, were losing much of their land. All were looking for work. They came together on the gumfields of the farnorth, digging up kauri gum resin for export." "Many of the Croatians settled and married - some to mail-order brides from home, others to local Maori women - and a unique community was born. Drawing on a range of sources, from official historical narratives on the kauri gum industry, to oral histories, novels, letters, newspaper articles, marriage certificates, and much more, Senka Bozic-Vrbancic examines Maori-Croatian relationships on the gumfields and beyond. This is a significant contribution to ideas about migration and displacement and an important discussion of the impact of different social models - colonialism, assimilation, biculturalism, and multiculturalism - on Maori and Croatian identity and memory. The book is illustrated with historical photographs."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 143
... lived together on Muriwhenua gumfields diverged . As Wiremu Tomas put it : [ When the gum stopped ] a lot of Dallies bought land , businesses , farms or grew vineyards , whereas the Maoris most of them went back , and settled on their ...
... lived together on Muriwhenua gumfields diverged . As Wiremu Tomas put it : [ When the gum stopped ] a lot of Dallies bought land , businesses , farms or grew vineyards , whereas the Maoris most of them went back , and settled on their ...
Page 144
... lived , and it certainly did not help Maori who lived in the Far North . In the Hokianga , where the land was more fertile than on Te Aupori peninsula , newly established dairy farms provided support for around 3000 Maori ( Belich 2001 ...
... lived , and it certainly did not help Maori who lived in the Far North . In the Hokianga , where the land was more fertile than on Te Aupori peninsula , newly established dairy farms provided support for around 3000 Maori ( Belich 2001 ...
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... lived as home , precisely because the home is not exterior but interior to embodied subjects ... The experience of leaving home in migration is hence always about the failure of memory to make sense of the place one comes to inhabit , a ...
... lived as home , precisely because the home is not exterior but interior to embodied subjects ... The experience of leaving home in migration is hence always about the failure of memory to make sense of the place one comes to inhabit , a ...
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