Writing Back from the Academy
Uncovering the Unnamed Targets of Makereti's Revisionist Anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8047699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Gattey (0000-0002-3406-1851, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 157-187 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Intellectual History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-2443 • E-ISSN: 1479-2451 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1479244323000124 |
| OpenAlex | W4383536224 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The second Māori student to enrol at the University of Oxford, Makereti studied anthropology in the intellectual epicentre of the British Empire from 1927 to 1930, participating in transnational academic networks by writing about her own people. Her work was published posthumously as The Old-Time Maori , now acclaimed as an unprecedented work of Māori auto-ethnography. Exploring a forgotten seam of revisionist anthropology, this article argues that reappraisals of Makereti have failed to capture the magnitude of her project of Indigenous resistance writing. Through close reading of Makereti's personal papers and published work, this article uncovers the targeted revisionism of Makereti's scholarship—in particular identifying the unnamed targets of her critique—and how she used the epistemic tools of imperial and salvage anthropology to challenge colonial discourses about Māori. Makereti's engagement with Oxford illuminates Indigenous adaptation of a discipline and institutions often portrayed as sites of incorrigibly imperialist ideology
Archaeology · Colonialism · Empire · Ethnography · Ideology · Indigenous · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Ecology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |