Personhood as history
Māori conversion in light of the Polynesian iconoclasm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3639328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Sissons (0000-0001-5761-0211, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-146 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Polynesian Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4000 • E-ISSN: 2230-5955 |
| Publisher | Polynesian Society (PUBLISHER • NZ) |
| DOI | 10.15286/jps.124.2.129-146 |
| OpenAlex | W2521304104 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
In The Polynesian Iconoclasm: Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power (Berghann Books 2014) I described the desecration of god-images and temples during the period 1825-1828. I excluded Māori society from the analysis because there images were not as central to religious life and mass conversions to Christianity occurred in the 1840s. In this article I propose that the later mass conversion in event in New Zealand shared significant features with the Polynesian Iconoclasm. In both instances priests directed their ritual practice towards intense tapu centres, polluting chiefly bodies and triggering radical collective change
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Christianity · Ethnology · Iconoclasm · Period (music · Personhood · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |