Research Catalog

Title

The Treaty of Waitangi and the control of language / Richard Dawson.

Author

Dawson, Richard M. (Richard Mark)

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Victoria University of Wellington. Institute of Policy Studies.

Description

x, 255 pages : portrait; 21 cm

Summary

This work argues that terms in the Treaty of Waitangi like "sovereignty" and "tino rangitiratanga" do not have a plain meaning; meaning is open to the vicissitudes of time and culture. It seeks to augment the level of policy debate by directing attention to the importance of language.

Subject

• Treaty of Waitangi (1840 February 6)
• Tiriti o Waitangi
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Legal status, laws, etc
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Government policy
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Claims
• Language and culture
• Intercultural communication > New Zealand
• Language
• Maoris > Politique gouvernementale
• Maoris > Réclamations
• Langage et culture
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Government policy
• Intercultural communication
• Language and culture
• Māori (New Zealand people)
• Auslegung
• Tino rangatiratanga
• Tōrangapū
• Reo Māori
• Māramatanga
• Ture o te Kāwanatanga
• New Zealand
• Waitangi > Vertrag

Genre/Form

• Treaties
• Claims
• Treaties.
• Traités.

Note

• "Richard Dawson, Henry Lang Fellow 2000"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-255).

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual foundations -- 3. Antecedents to Waitangi -- 4. Constitutional footings -- 5. Dynamics of dispossession -- 6. Compensation and settlement -- 7. Scholarship -- 8. Building the Constitution -- 9. Towards a workable mutuality -- 10. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0908935552
• 9780908935550

LCCN

2002327723

OCLC

• ocm48709403
• 48709403
• SCSB-8933681

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library