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Art and Biculturalism: Innovative M aori Meeting Houses and the Settler Nation
Author(s) -
Rosenblatt Daniel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12010
Subject(s) - biculturalism , argument (complex analysis) , meaning (existential) , politics , state (computer science) , sociology , aesthetics , media studies , history , art , political science , law , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , neuroscience of multilingualism , biochemistry , chemistry , algorithm
Two recent carved M aori meeting houses, one in a museum and the other on a polytech campus, manage to break down the boundaries between “contemporary” and “traditional” M aori art. Both houses also attempt to represent the whole of the institutions of which they are a part rather than only the M aori members of those institutions. This article argues that these innovations are connected, and that they reflect and help propagate a larger refiguring of the meaning of “biculturalism” in the settler state of N ew Z ealand. As part of looking at the significance and effects of these houses, the article draws on ideas about genre and artistic practice to make an argument about how cultural and political change happens.