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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... started to resist further sales ( Binney 1990 : 95 ) . In 1858 , a number of Maori tribes in the North Island elected a Maori King , as an attempt to unite into an ' anti - land - selling confederation ' ( Sorrenson 1992 : 153 ) . Soon ...
... started to resist further sales ( Binney 1990 : 95 ) . In 1858 , a number of Maori tribes in the North Island elected a Maori King , as an attempt to unite into an ' anti - land - selling confederation ' ( Sorrenson 1992 : 153 ) . Soon ...
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... started to learn Croatian when I came here ... on 28th of February 1915 ... it was a Big Friday ... actually I started to learn a few years after that You started to learn immediately , maybe one year after your arrival to Ahipara you ...
... started to learn Croatian when I came here ... on 28th of February 1915 ... it was a Big Friday ... actually I started to learn a few years after that You started to learn immediately , maybe one year after your arrival to Ahipara you ...
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... started to rain , so I decided to stay for a while in the museum . Inside , I felt as if I was back in the Jurlinas ' gumstore : there were bottles stacked on dusty shelves , an old gramophone from the twenties , a dusty wooden mask ...
... started to rain , so I decided to stay for a while in the museum . Inside , I felt as if I was back in the Jurlinas ' gumstore : there were bottles stacked on dusty shelves , an old gramophone from the twenties , a dusty wooden mask ...
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