Through the Eye of the Needle

Résumé du livre

"This remarkable case study by Mary Katharine Duffié is in the modern vernacular of biculturalism and cultural adaptation. It is not an ethnography in the traditional sense in that it is not about a culture frozen in time, but rather about the process of engagement between an indigenous culture, the Māori of New Zealand, and its colonizers, the British, known locally as the Pākehā. This process is dramatically represented in the autobiography of a prominent Māori woman, Heeni Wharemaru, who bridged the enormous gap between the two cultures to become a thoroughly bicultural person ... Her autobiography, collected and edited by Dr. Duffié, gives the analysis of Māori-Pākehā relationships a personal meaning. The two together, the life story of a woman who experienced the crises and calamities suffered by her people but who took the best of the two worlds she experienced, and the analytic purview by Dr. Duffié, provide an unparalleled look into postcolonial New Zealand society and the relations between colonizer and colonized"--Page vi.