dc.contributor.advisor |
McRae, Jane |
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dc.contributor.advisor |
Henare, Manuka |
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dc.contributor.author |
Petrie, Hazel |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2008-01-08T00:51:11Z |
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dc.date.available |
2008-01-08T00:51:11Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2004 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Thesis (PhD)--Maori Studies)--University of Auckland, 2004. |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2284 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This thesis is a history of Maori ship and flourmill ownership set into the wider
economic context of mid-nineteenth-century New Zealand. It examines why and how
Māori purchased flourmills and trading ships in this period and questions the currently
popular view that these were ill-advised investments driven by a desire for status
symbols or mere fads resulting from a culturally characteristic neophilia. It argues that
both industries were generally well-considered enterprises, appropriate to contemporary
conditions, and that they made significant contributions to the New Zealand colonial
economy at a particularly fragile stage.
An examination of Māori trading practices from the time of European contact
establishes that certain aspects of their social relationships and commercial practice
were 'traditional' and therefore provide points from which to consider the process of
change. It is argued that customary modes facilitated the optimisation of economic
benefits presented by a hugely expanded marketplace but that contemporary Christian
and western political economic ideas, which gave ideological support to flourmill and
ship ownership, also contributed significantly to the involution of Māori commercial
enterprise. Māori necessarily responded to these teachings, but a consideration of the
rationale behind their acquisition of these assets supports the appropriateness of such
investments under contemporary conditions.
Evidence from a wide range of Māori and Pakeha sources forms the basis for examining
the motivations and management of Māori shipping and flourmilling enterprises and for
tracking changes in understandings of proprietary rights. In this context, philosophical
and political intervention by missionaries and other Pakeha agents, including the
valorisation of individual ownership and enterprise, can be seen to have enticed those
from the lower echelons of Māori society to forsake the obligations of a communal
economy. As well as undermining the communal nature of Māori society and the
authority of traditional leaders, these interventions also fostered greater rigidity in
Maori social, economic, and political structures so that the advantages of customary
ways were lost. Combined with the loss of resources and a concomitant rise in the
political power of the rapidly growing Pakeha population, these changes made it
increasingly difficult for Māori to sustain their economic predominance. |
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dc.format |
Scanned from print thesis |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
PhD Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isversionof |
Petrie, Hazel (2006). Chiefs of industry : Māori tribal enterprise in early colonial New Zealand. Auckland NZ: Auckland University Press |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA1227945 |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
"For a season quite the rage?" : ships and flourmills in the Māori economy 1840-1860s |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Māori Studies |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Doctoral |
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thesis.degree.name |
PhD |
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dc.subject.marsden |
Fields of Research::420000 Language and Culture::420300 Cultural Studies::420306 Maori cultural studies |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.local.anzsrc |
169904 - Studies of Maori Society |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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pubs.org-id |
Faculty of Arts |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112158920 |
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