Chapter 1 Illustrations Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: Up the Gorge Part 4 Myths Chapter 5 High-Country Mystiques Chapter 6 Compositions of Country Part 7 Family Chapter 8 Homesteads and the Domestic Landscape Chapter 9 Family, Farm, and Property Transfer Part 10 Country Chapter 11 "Knowing this Place": Toponymy and Topographic Language Chapter 12 "Getting on with It": Mustering, Shearing, and Lambing Part 13 Contexts Chapter 14 Asserting a Native Status Chapter 15 Legislating a Sustainable Land Ethic Chapter 16 Epilogue: Calling the Expanse a Home Chapter 17 Glossary Chapter 18 References Chapter 19 Index
Michèle Dominy is Professor of Anthropology at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Dominy uses classical and contemporary ethnographic skills to
maximum effect. Calling the Station Home is soundly researched and
attractively presented. Michéle Dominy has done an excellent job
and provides an interpretation which is critically informed,
sensitive and perceptive. Destined to achieve classic status.
*Journal of Historical Geography*
In this book I discovered the virtue of anthropology as an academic
discipline, searching for realities among appearances, sifting what
people say and do for cultural patterns and thereby enabling others
to catch a glimpse of the depth and complexity of relationships
among high-country people and between these people and
landscape.
*Rural Network News*
Calling the Station Home is an important contribution to debates
about identity and indigeneity in the Pacific, today and in the
past. It will resonate in discussions far beyond the high country,
and contribute to new understandings of very difficult issues.
*Journal of Pacific History*
This is an important and thoughtful book which must be read by
anyone interested in rural New Zealand, the pursuit of sustainable
forms of land use, an our ongoing search for a more distinctive
national identity.
*New Zealand Journal Of History*
Dominy's sympathetic intelligence and astute ethnographic skills
have yielded a fascinating and important work, rich in detail,
perceptive in judgment and well worth the attention of those
interested in the social construction of space, the spatiality of
society, and such issues as cultural legitimacy, indigenous land
claims, environmental management and the "complex, dynamic and
diachronic interplay of cultural and environmental systems".
*Pacific Affairs*
A ground-breaking and scholarly ethnographic study of Pakeha New
Zealanders.
*Oceana*
Dominy provides a sensitive account of gender as it relates to
everyday work, the homestead and surrounds, and, especially,
generational succession.
*American Ethnologist*
Dominy's research provides a very detailed and absorbing account of
the processes by which the high country settler descendants
establish a self-defining indigeneity...I hope that the book
attracts the attention it deserves so that the relationship of
Pakeha to the land become a more widely accepted subject for
research and political debate.
*Oceana*
Dominy's book provides a stimulating addition to the growing body
of work examining the contours of post-colonial European identities
in Aotearoa/New Zealand, not in a spirit of denouncement, but
rather in hope of a reflective understanding that starts to explore
the myriad relations and fractures characterizing such identities.
In this sense, the book's wider importance lies in the
understandings it can bring to the construction of settler
identities in a post-colonial world.
*Cultural Geographies*
This is an important and courageous book that deserves a wide
readership.
*American Anthropologist*
Dominy's book is useful for complementing anthropological work on
indigenous people's relationship with their environs with a
description of what are, after all, commercial pastoralists in a
capitalist society.
*Royal Anthropological Institute Of Great Britain and Ireland*
This ethnography would make a fine addition to any applied
anthropology syllabus, and will reward all readers with an interest
in exploring the ways in which an environment is known and valued
by those who have learnt to call it home.
*Anthropological Forum*
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