Contact, Interaction & Their Impacts

  • Ian Pool
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Part of the Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development book series (DTSD, volume 3)

Abstract

Angela Ballara (2003: 396, also 45–46) argued that the Maori population at colonial annexation (1840) was different numerically, geographically and in terms of resource use from that seen by James Cook (1769–1772). Her comment sets the themes for the next few chapters, which document what occurred between contact and 1840, demographically – whether or not the Maori population numbers grew or declined – and the relationships between population changes and development trends. But a confounding factor is that Victorian writers, observing declines in Maori population numbers after annexation, retrodicted this trend, attributing it to the ‘fatal impact’ of contact, due to a Darwinian encounter between an ‘inferior’ population and a ‘superior’ one. Many saw this ‘collapse’ as something that was due to Maori agency – that the seeds of their decrease rested with their own ‘barbaric’ behaviours. To numerous late Victorian Pakeha, colonization, reinforced by evangelization, had saved Maori from their own worst failings, some even asserting that Maori numbers had been falling before contact. Several generations of major historians have critically dissected these ideas, separating myth-building from empirical reality. Yet recently, a cohort of revisionists have published sensationalist accounts of pre-colonial Maori, tabloid in form rather than the ideologically-driven texts that characerise neo-con revisionist writing in Australia and the United States. Remaining virtually unaddressed are still some basic questions: whether or not development continued after contact, or even extended beyond what might have occurred traditionally, or, instead, was any development stymied by the ‘impacts’, direct and indirect, of contact.

Keywords

Native People World Fertility Survey Conceivable Sort Female Infanticide Sensationalist Account 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Ian Pool
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  1. 1.National Institute of Demographic and Economic AnalysisUniversity of WaikatoHamiltonNew Zealand

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