The second Māori student to enrol at the University of Oxford, Makereti studied anthropology in the intellectual epicentre of the British Empire from 1927 to 1930, participating in transnational academic networks by writing about her own people. Her work was published posthumously as The Old-Time Maori, now acclaimed as an unprecedented work of Māori auto-ethnography. Exploring a forgotten seam of revisionist anthropology, this article argues that reappraisals of Makereti have failed to capture the magnitude of her project of Indigenous resistance writing. Through close reading of Makereti's personal papers and published work, this article uncovers the targeted revisionism of Makereti's scholarship—in particular identifying the unnamed targets of her critique—and how she used the epistemic tools of imperial and salvage anthropology to challenge colonial discourses about Māori. Makereti's engagement with Oxford illuminates Indigenous adaptation of a discipline and institutions often portrayed as sites of incorrigibly imperialist ideology.

马凯雷蒂是牛津大学的第二位毛利学生，从 1927 年到 1930 年，她在大英帝国的知识中心学习人类学，通过撰写有关自己人民的文章来参与跨国学术网络。她的作品在死后出版，名为《旧时毛利人》，现在被誉为毛利人自我民族志史无前例的作品。本文探讨了修正主义人类学中被遗忘的接缝，认为对马克雷蒂的重新评估未能体现她的土著抵抗写作项目的规模。通过仔细阅读马克雷蒂的个人论文和已发表的作品，本文揭示了马克雷蒂学术的有针对性的修正主义——特别是确定了她批评的未命名目标——以及她如何利用帝国和抢救人类学的认知工具来挑战关于毛利人的殖民话语。马凯雷蒂与牛津大学的合作阐明了对经常被描述为不可救药的帝国主义意识形态场所的学科和机构的本土改编。