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Experiments Across Worlds

By Anne Salmond

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In her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide. Beginning with a fine-grained inquiry into the early period of encounters between Maori and Europeans, Salmond then investigates clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life.

Product code: 9781869409296

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ISBN 9781869409296
Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) H229xW152
No. Of Pages 512
Publisher Auckland University Press

Dame Anne Salmond's most ambitious book to date which was shortlisted for the Nayef Al- Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018. Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remote, beautiful archipelago, settlers from Polynesia and Europe (and elsewhere) have clashed and forged alliances, they have fiercely debated what is real and what is common sense, what is good and what is right. In this, her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide. Beginning with a fine-grained inquiry into the early period of encounters between Maori and Europeans in New Zealand (1769 1840), Salmond then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life waterways, land, the sea and people. We live in a world of gridded maps, Outlook calendars and balance sheets making it seem that this is the nature of reality itself. But in New Zealand, concepts of whakapapa and hau, complex networks and reciprocal exchange, may point to new ways of understanding interactions between peoples, and between people and the natural world. Like our ancestors, Anne Salmond suggests, we too may have a chance to experiment across worlds.