TY - BOOK AU - Wanhalla,Angela TI - Matters of the heart: a history of interracial marriage in New Zealand SN - 9781869407315 : U1 - 306.8460993 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Auckland, New Zealand PB - Auckland University Press KW - Interracial marriage KW - New Zealand KW - History KW - Europeans KW - Kōrero taumata KW - reo KW - Whānau KW - Noho-ā-iwi KW - Mārenatanga N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-219) and index; Preface: Matters of the heart -- Marriage in early New Zealand -- Missionaries, morality and interracial marriage -- The affective state -- Wives or mistresses? -- Race, gender and respectability -- The 'science' of miscegenation -- Modern marriage and Māori urbanisation -- Epilogue: marriage and the nation N2 - Matters of the Heart introduces us to couples like Philip and Kathleen to unravel the long history of interracial relationships in New Zealand. That history runs from whalers and traders marrying into Maori families in the early nineteenth century through to the growth of interracial marriages in the later twentieth. It stretches from common law marriages and Maori customary marriages to formal arrangements recognised by church and state. And that history runs the gamut of official reactions -- from condemnation of interracial immorality or racial treason to celebration of New Zealand's unique intermarriage patterns as a sign of us being 'one people' with the 'best race relations in the world' ER -