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The Māori Whare after contact

Martin, David Robert (University of Otago, 1997)
This study explores post-contact changes to the ordinary Māori whare. The main physical characteristics of the ordinary whare at contact are identified by accessing archaeological and written 18th century ethnographic data. ...
Poia atu / mai (?) taku poi – The Polynesian Origins of Poi

Paringatai, Karyn
Poi is recognised around the world as a performance item unique to Māori. The word poi refers to a Māori dance or game performed with a ball-like object, to which a cord of varying length is attached. Poi refers to both ...
What is Māori Studies?

Reilly, Michael PJ (University of Otago, 2008)
Sid Mead once described Māori Studies as ‘the uncomfortable science’. Uncomfortable because its place within the university was often questioned by Pākehā scholars, while those who worked within the subject remained uneasy ...
Tackling Māori Masculinity: A Colonial Genealogy of Savagery and Sport

Hokowhitu, Brendan
The primary aim of this paper, then, is to deconstruct one of the dominant discourses surrounding Māori men—a discourse that was constructed to limit, homogenize, and reproduce an acceptable and imagined Māori masculinity, ...
Whiteness: Naivety, Void and Control

Andersen, Chris; Hokowhitu, Brendan
CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: USES AND MISUSES OF INDIGENOUS “TRADITION” IN A CANADIAN UNIVERSITY Spring, 2001: A renowned architect has agreed to travel to the University of Alberta to engage in a visioning session, led by ...
Nga reo o nga niupepa : Māori language newspapers 1855-1863

Paterson, Lachlan (University of Otago, 2004)
By 1855, most Māori still lived in a tribal setting, with little official Pakeha interference. This would have been as they expected, exercising their tino rangatiratanga, the chiefly rights guaranteed by the Treaty of ...
Indigenous Legal Traditions: Looking at ways to reconcile aboriginal law and common law. A practical and principled approach.

Warbrick, Paerau
It is rather late in the day to say that customary law and aboriginal law does not form part of the common law system in the twenty-first century. The adoption by the United Nations of the Declaration of Indigenous Rights ...
Print Culture and the Collective Māori Consciousness

Paterson, Lachy
Although literacy and print were essential tools of the colonial project ultimately designed to ‘amalgamate’ Māori into the modern Pākehā-dominated world, ironically they also helped in the evolution of a collective Māori ...
He Kura Māori, he Kura Hāhi

Matthews, Nathan
Church initiated and operated Māori secondary boarding schools have existed in Aotearoa in various forms since the arrival of the missionaries in the early 19th century. Unfortunately, these schools have contributed to the ...
Traditional ecological knowledge and harvest management of Titi (Puffinus griseus) by Rakiura Māori

Kitson, Jane C (University of Otago, 2006)
Rakiura Māori continue a centuries old harvest of titi chicks (sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus) which is governed primarily by Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). The sustainability of titi harvesting is of high ...