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Unpacking the kists : the Scots in New Zealand / Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking and Jim McAloon, with Rebecca Lenihan and Tanja Bueltmann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; ; 34.Publisher: Montreal : Dunedin, New Zealand : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Otago University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xx, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781877578670
  • 9780773541900
  • 077354190X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 993.0049163 23
LOC classification:
  • DU
Contents:
1. Taking Stock: New Zealand's Scottish Migrants -- 2. Distinguishing Former Worlds: Who Were New Zealand's Scottish Migrants -- 3. Diaspora or Dispersion? Scottish Settlement Patterns in New Zealand -- 4. Success in a Settler Society: The Scots in New Zealand Economic Life -- 5. Building New Worlds: Scottish Contributions to New Zealand Civil Society -- 6. Transforming the Landscape: Scots and the New Zealand Environment -- 7. “Brither Scots Shoulder tae Shoulder”: Scottish Associational Culture in New Zealand -- 8. Hearth and Home: Cultural Traditions, Old World Customs, and New World Habits -- 9. Occupying the Non-Working Hours: Piety, Leisure, and Discourse -- 10. New Zealand's Place in the Scottish Diaspora and Settler Worlds.
Summary: "Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland, yet curiously New Zealand's Scots migrants have previously attracted only limited attention. A thorough and interdisciplinary work, Unpacking the Kists is the first in-depth study of New Zealand's Scots migrants and their impact on an evolving settler society. The authors establish the dimensions of Scottish migration to New Zealand, the principal source areas, the migrants' demographic characteristics and where they settled in the new land. Drawing from extended case studies, they examine how migrants adapted to their new environment and the extent of influence in diverse areas including the economy, religion, politics, education and folkways. They also look at the private worlds of family, neighbourhood and community, customs of everyday life and leisure pursuits, and expressions of both high and low forms of transplanted culture. Contributing to international scholarship on migrations and cultural adaptations, Unpacking the Kists demonstrates the historic contributions Scots made to New Zealand culture by retaining their ethnic connections and at the same time interacting with other ethnic groups."--Publisher website.
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Published simultaneously in New Zealand and Australia by Otago University Press--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Taking Stock: New Zealand's Scottish Migrants -- 2. Distinguishing Former Worlds: Who Were New Zealand's Scottish Migrants -- 3. Diaspora or Dispersion? Scottish Settlement Patterns in New Zealand -- 4. Success in a Settler Society: The Scots in New Zealand Economic Life -- 5. Building New Worlds: Scottish Contributions to New Zealand Civil Society -- 6. Transforming the Landscape: Scots and the New Zealand Environment -- 7. “Brither Scots Shoulder tae Shoulder”: Scottish Associational Culture in New Zealand -- 8. Hearth and Home: Cultural Traditions, Old World Customs, and New World Habits -- 9. Occupying the Non-Working Hours: Piety, Leisure, and Discourse -- 10. New Zealand's Place in the Scottish Diaspora and Settler Worlds.

"Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland, yet curiously New Zealand's Scots migrants have previously attracted only limited attention. A thorough and interdisciplinary work, Unpacking the Kists is the first in-depth study of New Zealand's Scots migrants and their impact on an evolving settler society. The authors establish the dimensions of Scottish migration to New Zealand, the principal source areas, the migrants' demographic characteristics and where they settled in the new land. Drawing from extended case studies, they examine how migrants adapted to their new environment and the extent of influence in diverse areas including the economy, religion, politics, education and folkways. They also look at the private worlds of family, neighbourhood and community, customs of everyday life and leisure pursuits, and expressions of both high and low forms of transplanted culture. Contributing to international scholarship on migrations and cultural adaptations, Unpacking the Kists demonstrates the historic contributions Scots made to New Zealand culture by retaining their ethnic connections and at the same time interacting with other ethnic groups."--Publisher website.

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