$40.00
- Paperback
316 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2025
Summary
In the history of intimate relations between Maori and Pakeha, public policy and private life are woven together. Matters of the Heart reveals much about how Maori and Pakeha have lived together in this country and our changing attitudes to race, marriage and intimacy.
That history runs from whalers and traders marrying into Maori families in the nineteenth century through to the growth of interracial marriages in the later twentieth. It stretches from common law marriages an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869407315 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1869407318 |
| Author: | Angela Wanhalla |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 170mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
‘Exploring a surprisingly unspoken part of New Zealand’s history, Wanhalla’s book is, by turns, heart-warming and heart-rending. Love, when it comes with colonial strings, can hurt. This important book, with its detailed research and long time span, tells why. It is powerful history.’ – Charlotte Macdonald
Exploring a surprisingly unspoken part of New Zealand’s history, Wanhalla’s book is, by turns, heart-warming and heart-rending. Love, when it comes with colonial strings, can hurt. This important book, with its detailed research and long time span, tells why. It is powerful history. – Charlotte Macdonald
[Wanhalla’s] aim is to demonstrate that interracial marriage “was neither a pre-1840 nor post-World War II phenomenon … [it] has been a feature of life from first contact through the colonial period and beyond”. – Anne Else, Listener NZ
Matters of the Heart is richly documented through original research in a wide range of primary sources and innovative deployment of local histories and genealogies. The photographs are beautiful and carefully interpreted. – Bettina Bradbury
About The Author
Angela Wanhalla
Angela Wanhalla is a Kai Tahu historian and senior lecturer in history at the University of Otago. She is the author of In/visible Sight: The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand and co-editor of Early New Zealand Photography: Images and Texts.
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