It's history, but not as we know it...
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Judith Binney on writing pluralist New Zealand histories including the history of Tuhoi.
It's history, but not as we know it - Courtesy of NZ Herald - 18-06-05
by Chris Barton
She describes it as "probably the hardest journey on earth - to know another people". Historian Judith Binney is talking about the missionary Thomas Kendall's struggle when he came to New Zealand in 1814. But the description, reframed in her re-issued biography of Kendall as "an effort 'to cross the beach' and enter the imagination and knowledge systems of a people who he had come to know and respect", could also be applied to her.
It's history, but not as we know it
Image: Judith Binney. Picture / Greg BowkerJudith Binney on writing pluralist New Zealand histories including the history of Tuhoi.
It's history, but not as we know it - Courtesy of NZ Herald - 18-06-05
by Chris Barton
She describes it as "probably the hardest journey on earth - to know another people". Historian Judith Binney is talking about the missionary Thomas Kendall's struggle when he came to New Zealand in 1814. But the description, reframed in her re-issued biography of Kendall as "an effort 'to cross the beach' and enter the imagination and knowledge systems of a people who he had come to know and respect", could also be applied to her.
It's history, but not as we know it
Image: Judith Binney. Picture / Greg Bowker