Gardens of Rongo
Applying Cross-Field Anthropology to Explain Contact Violence in New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2223116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Barber (0000-0003-3918-4145), Ian G Barber (0000-0003-2014-4389, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 799-808 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/667834 |
| OpenAlex | W2033774325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 18 |
The scholarship of early-contact violence involving European voyagers and the first peoples of the Americas and Oceania is notable for divergent interpretations and debates around the methods and ethics of historical ethnography, as in the celebrated controversy over Captain James Cook's 1779 Hawaiian death. Scholars agree that this divergence is exacerbated by reliance on fragmentary or tendentious documentary sources. New research on the "first contact" in 1642 between a Dutch expedition and South Island New Zealand Māori suggests the potential value of a cross-field anthropology to elucidate encounter violence. Archaeological, ethnobotanical, and anthropology of religion research results are reported so as to inform a cultural-landscape interpretation for the contact events of December 18 and 19, 1642. This provides for a new reading of the encounter around local perceptions of Dutch interests in kūmara (sweet potato) fields under tapu (a restricted, spiritually dangerous state) and the ritual care of the deity Rongo. Cross-field anthropology may yet encourage new collaborations in contact studies and prove useful in generating testable explanations of violent historical encounters where traditional accounts are sparse
Divergence (linguistics · Ethnography · Ethnology · Field (mathematics · Interpretation (philosophy · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy
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Shangwe Music for Spiritual Rituals
The Difficult Place of Deserted Coasts in Archaeology
Molluscan mulching at the margins
American sweet potato and Asia-Pacific crop experimentation during early colonisation of temperate-climate Aotearoa/New Zealand
Transformations of Polynesian culture
Diffusion or innovation? Explaining lithic agronomy on the southern Polynesian margins
Bet-hedging strategies, agricultural change, and unpredictable environments
Voyages and Beaches
The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman
Shcal04 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–11.0 Cal Kyr BP
Discussion Reporting of 14 C Data
IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0-50,000 Years cal BP
Sea, land and fish
Prehistoric and early historic agriculture at Maunga Orito, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile
Intensive dryland farming on the leeward slopes of Haleakala, Maui, Hawaiian Islands
The Journal of Pacific History
The Anthropology of Colonialism
Culture Contact Studies
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere, and Sahlins
Loss, Change, and Monumental Landscaping
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |