TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wanhalla,Angela
TI  - In/visible sight: the mixed-descent families of Southern New Zealand 
SN  - 9781877242434 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Wellington, N.Z.
PB  - Bridget Williams Books
KW  - Ngāi Tahu (New Zealand people)
KW  - Relations with Europeans
KW  - Interracial marriage
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - South Island
KW  - Tatau pounamu
KW  - reo
KW  - Mārenatanga
KW  - Tikanga-ā-iwi
KW  - Whakapapa
KW  - Whanaungatanga
KW  - Whānau
KW  - Tikanga
KW  - South Island (N.Z.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index
N2  - Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and Mabel Smith, were born. As the book took shape, a community emerged from the records, re-casting history and identity in the present.   Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, In/visible Sight examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonisation in southern New Zealand. There Ngāi Tahu engaged with the European newcomers on a sustained scale from the 1820s, encountering systematic settlement from the 1840s and fighting land alienation from the 1850s. The evolving social world was one framed by marriage, kinship networks and cultural practices - a world in which inter-racial intimacy played a formative role. In exploring this history through a particular group of family networks, In/visible Sight offers new insights into New Zealand's colonial past. Marriage as a fundamental social institution in the nineteenth century takes on a different shape when seen through the lens of cross-cultural encounters. The book also outlines some of the contours and ambiguities involved in living as mixed descent in colonial New Zealand
ER  -