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Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand

Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand

Patterson, Brad
Brooking, Tom
McAloon, Jim

Hardcover

Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, Book 20

Australia & Oceania

ISBN10: 077354190X
ISBN13: 9780773541900
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Oct 9 2013
Pages: 434
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland, yet curiously New Zealand's Scots migrants have previously attracted only limited attention. A thorough and interdisciplinary work, Unpacking the Kists is the first in-depth study of New Zealand's Scots migrants and their impact on an evolving settler society.

The authors establish the dimensions of Scottish migration to New Zealand, the principal source areas, the migrants' demographic characteristics, and where they settled in the new land. Drawing from extended case-studies, they examine how migrants adapted to their new environment and the extent of longevity in diverse areas including the economy, religion, politics, education, and folkways. They also look at the private worlds of family, neighbourhood, community, customs of everyday life and leisure pursuits, and expressions of both high and low forms of transplanted culture.

Adding to international scholarship on migrations and cultural adaptations, Unpacking the Kists demonstrates the historic contributions Scots made to New Zealand culture by retaining their ethnic connections and at the same time interacting with other ethnic groups.

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