Anne Salmond

Steve Braunias talks to Anne Salmond [historian and anthropologist of Cook's tour].

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5th July, 2003

Anne Salmond

Great sailor, shame he ever set foot on land. All the usual embarrassments, unease, and downright loathing of New Zealand's colonial past come into play with Captain James Cook: we view him, when we view him at all, as a stern and controlling figure, who set the scene for all the European-Maori divide and distrust that followed, somehow responsible for putting everyone in the cultural mess we flounder around in today. He started it, just another imperialist brute, so out of favour that years ago his face disappeared from our dollar - a man without currency. Dame Anne Salmond's magnificent ...

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