Between people and things: understanding violence and theft in early New Zealand transactions

In this thesis some Māori-Māori and Māori-European transactions in pre-colonial New Zealand are examined in detail to establish why physical violence resulted although violence had not been the intention. A methodology adapted from those developed by Brass (1997) and Wilson (2008) for investigating...

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Main Author: Wilkes, Annette Marie
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political Sciences 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8706