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Steven Webster’s Patrons of Maori Culture: Power, Theory and Ideology in the Maori Renaissanceis a collection of essays which addresses two main issues: the place of Maori culture in New Zealand and the scholarly use of the anthropological notion of ‘culture’. Webster argues that since the 1960s students of Maori culture—and some Maori—have focused on ‘traditional’ culture rather than everyday contemporary Maori culture. The ideological separation between the two is the central problem he addresses. Patrons of Maori Culture is divided into three sections: ‘culture’, ‘history’ and ‘university’. In his opening chapter Webster considers modern Maori culture, arguing that the assumption that ‘Maori culture’ refers to a whole way of life is largely ideological, in that it obscures that other part of Maori culture which is all about struggle and survival. Chapter two examines Maori and the people of Rapanui (Easter Island) and the way in which they make sense of their own ‘fragmented’ cultures through the image of the other. The next three chapters are grouped under the general heading of ‘history’. Chapter three looks at the roots of Maoritanga in the political and economic climate of New Zealand during the 1920s and the anthropological ideas which were being developed at that time. In chapter four Webster considers the work of Ralph Piddington, the founder of modern social anthropology in New Zealand, arguing that despite Piddington’s many positive efforts, he nonetheless helped to create a notion of ‘culture’ as traditional whole ways of life which were considered outside their own history. Chapter five presents a critical review of the last thirty years of the academic discipline of ‘Maori Studies’. The final three chapters focus on Maori culture and its ‘patrons’ at the university of Auckland. Chapter six chronicles the development of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland since 1972. Chapter seven describes the creation of marae art and ‘the reproduction of Maori ethnicity’. The final chapter considers the postmodernisation of Maori culture, or as Webster describes ‘the appropriation of Maori culture as a whole way of life, to the disregard of its other