{"product_id":"matters-of-the-heart","title":"Matters of the Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Soutar died at Ypres in 1917. Before becoming a soldier, Soutar’s life revolved around his farm at Whakatāne, where he lived with his Māori wife Kathleen Pine in an ‘as-you-please marriage, uncelebrated by a clergyman’. \u003cem\u003eMatters of the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e introduces us to couples like Philip and Kathleen to unravel the long history of interracial relationships in New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThat history runs from whalers and traders marrying into Māori families in the early nineteenth century through to the growth of interracial marriages in the later twentieth. It stretches from common law marriages and Māori customary marriages to formal arrangements recognised by church and state. And that history runs the gamut of official reactions – from condemnation of interracial immorality or racial treason to celebration of New Zealand’s unique intermarriage patterns as a sign of us being ‘one people’ with the ‘best race relations in the world’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eIn the history of intimate relations between Māori and Pākehā, public policy and private life were woven together. \u003cem\u003eMatters of the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e reveals much about how Māori and Pākehā have lived together in this country and our changing attitudes to race, marriage and intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66233634750813,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781869407315.jpg?v=1792208403","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/matters-of-the-heart","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}