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Conflicts of redistribution in contemporary Maori society: leadership and the Tainui settlement
journal of the Polynesian Society • 112 (3) • Published In 2003 • Pages: 260-279
By: Meijl, Toon van.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In 1995, The Tainui were the first Maori group to sign a major settlement of their historic grievances against the New Zealand government as the result of the confiscation of their lands and natural resource by the government at the end of the war between the two principals in 1860-1864. This article examines '...what went wrong in the aftermath of the settlement and some of the structural causes of political conflicts within the Tainui Conferation, trying to disentangle the essentialised meanings of 'traditionalist' arguments concerning tribal leadership in relation to the 'modern' arguments for the introduction of democracy within the tribe' (p. 261).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External relations
- Real property
- Kindreds and ramages
- Tribe and nation
- Chief executive
- Political movements
- Administration
- Peacemaking
- Ingroup antagonisms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Maori
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1983, 1987-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1858-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tainui Maori, North Island, New Zealand
- NotesAdditional notes
- Toon van Meijl
- for bibliographical references see document 14
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 08012644
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Maori (New Zealand people)