Context Flashcards
Who is Edward Wakefield?
He started the NZ company, and along with the Lords of the Realm, wanted to colonise NZ
Who is William Wakefield?
Was instructed by Edward Wakefield to purchase as much NZ land as possible
Who was James Busby?
He was sent here in 1833 by the Queen to oversee the British people in NZ. He set up the flag and became NZ’s first resident. He also helped draft the Treaty.
Who was William Hobson?
Sent by Lord Normandy and Queen Victoria to gain consent from Maori to govern them as part of Great Britain. He was the first Governor of NZ.
Who was William Williams?
He wrote the Te Reo Maori dictionary
Who was Henry Williams?
He was the first person to become proficient in Te Reo Maori (landed in 1823). Also the Father of Edward Williams.
What did Irapheti Ramsden do?
She wrote the cultural safety guidelines in 1991
When was the Land March and who led it?
1975, Dame Whina Cooper
What did Eva Rickard do and when?
She marched to Waitangi in 1984 for equality for Maori
Who was the leading anti-colonial thinker about Black people?
Frantz Fanon
Hegemony:
The ability of the ruling classes to transmit their value and ideas as the norm
Emics:
Aspects that appear to be different across cultures
Etics:
Aspect of life that appear to be consistent over cultures
Agency:
Influence and control over ones own choices
Culture is?
Elastic, largely below the surface, multi-layered, constantly in flux.
When was the first major settlement of NZ and what was it called?
1100’s; the Great Migration
Monoculturalism definition:
Is the practice of preserving a national culture via the exclusion of external influences.
When was the Declaration of Independence and what did it mean?
1835; Maori declared to the world that authority over land resided with only Maori.
The three revolutions:
Industrial (1750-1840’s), agricultural (1770’s) and political (1830’s).
What was written in 1833?
The Abolition Act (means slave trade was abolished in all of the British Empire)