Introduction: Colonial Grievances, Justice and Reconciliation

Authors

  • Toon van Meijl Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Michael Goldsmith University of Waikato

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.121.2.111-128

Abstract

Toon van Meijl completed his PhD in Anthropology at the Australian National University in 1991. Currently he is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and head of the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Since 1982 he has conducted 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Tainui Māori in New Zealand. He has published on cultural traditions, identity issues and on a range of questions emerging from the debate about property rights of indigenous peoples.

Author Biographies

Toon van Meijl, Radboud University Nijmegen

Toon van Meijl completed his PhD in Anthropology at the Australian National University in 1991. Currently he is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and head of the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Since 1982 he has conducted 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Tainui Māori in New Zealand. He has published on cultural traditions, identity issues and on a range of questions emerging from the debate about property rights of indigenous peoples.

Michael Goldsmith, University of Waikato

Michael Goldsmith is currently Chair of the School of Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. His main research interests are ethnic and cultural identity in New Zealand and the history, culture and politics of Tuvalu, where he carried out fieldwork for a PhD thesis on church and society.

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Published

2012-09-02

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Vol. 121 No. 2 (2012)

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