Political Expression and Ethnicity: Statecraft and Mobilization in the Maori World

by Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

Hazlehurst explores the political importance of ethnicity for a minority indigenous population, the Maori of New Zealand. Drawing on close ethnographical observation and extensive interviews with key participants, Kayleen Hazlehurst provides a comprehensive narrative and analysis of the creation of the Mana Motuhake party and its formative electoral experiences. Hazlehurst places the emergence of the party in the early 1980s in the context of historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275944581
• ISBN13: 9780275944582
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"