Ancestor Worship: The Earthly Paradise of Jane Campion's Universe

In Australia and New Zealand, at a time when the politics of our cultural identities have temporarily replaced traditional notions of class struggle, Jane Campion had taken the extraordinary step of making an anthropological film about her own cultural identity (as a pakeha – a non-Maori) and the arrival and impact of Europeanism (more specifically, Anglo-Celticism) in the antipodes.