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He tanga ngutu, he Tuhoetanga te Mana Motuhake o te ta moko wahine: The identity politics of moko kauae
Ta moko (Māori tattooing), especially facial moko (tattoo), has become a popular mechanism for the expression of self determination. Many Māori people are adopting this art form as part of a renaissance of Māori culture ...
Nga reo o nga niupepa : Māori language newspapers 1855-1863
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 ...
Massage therapy services for health needs: drivers, utilisation, culture of care, and practice patterns of massage therapy in NZ
Background
The use of massage therapy, a complementary and alternative medicine modality, is widespread and growing. However, little is known about why consumers choose and continue to use massage therapy, in most cases ...
Refining an entrepreneurial orientation and its impact on driving markets behaviours
Firms adopting an entrepreneurial orientation (EO) can be described as firms that take risks, are proactive in pursuing opportunities, compete aggressively with their industry rivals, launch products that change market ...
Bioorthogonal chemistry as a tool for prodrug activation and drug design
Bioorthogonal chemistry refers to any chemical reaction that can occur inside a living system without interfering or altering other cellular processes. Over the last two decades, this concept has been researched extensively ...
Thinking Outside the Fence: Exploring Culture/Land Relationships: A Case Study of Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia.
Over the past 10-15 years Ratanakiri Province, in the far northeast of Cambodia, has been undergoing rapid land use change. This thesis explores this process, in particular, two countervailing aspects of this. The first ...
Into the Deep Water, to the Other Side: Discipleship in Luke’s Lake Stories
This study uses a narrative approach to consider Luke’s lake stories (Luke 5:1-11 and 8:22-39) as parallel accounts. It is argued that through the use of shared vocabulary, themes, and narrative structuring, Luke displays ...
The impacts of harvesting and the sustainability of a New Zealand Littleneck Clam (Austrovenus stutchburyi) fishery in Papanui and Waitati inlets, New Zealand
The New Zealand Littleneck Clam (Austrovenus stutchburyi) fishery in the Otago province of New Zealand is based in Papanui and Waitati Inlets. A single operator, Southern Clams Limited, has commercially harvested the ...
Stream rehabilitation within agricultural riverscapes
Modern agriculture is necessary to feed our growing global population, yet agriculture is also the most extensive cause of freshwater ecosystem degradation. Accordingly, determining how to maintain or improve freshwater ...
Programming Parents: Care of Supernanny
In 2004 the problem of bad parenting came to the British public’s attention in a string of reality TV programmes about unruly children, exemplified most prominently by Supernanny. Unlike first and second wave makeover ...