Indigenous Studies
Recent Deposits
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Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions
Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal ... -
Indigenous Language Print Culture: Colonial Discourses and Indigenous Agency
The attached video presents a seminar given by Dr Lachy Paterson on 23/3/2010 to the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University as part of the Brown Paper Seminar Series. Te Tumu thanks Monash University ... -
Stranger to the Islands: voice, place and the self in Indigenous Studies
This lecture presents the views of someone anthropologists call a participant-observer, and Māori characterise as a Pākehā, a manuhiri (guest, visitor), or a tangata kē (stranger); the latter two terms contrast with the ... -
Intention and Implementation: Piecing Together Provisions for Māori in the Resource Management Act 1991
Today, it is widely recognised that indigenous people have a valuable contribution to make to the development and practice of resource management. New Zealand legislation recognises in part the importance of Māori participation ... -
Pārahirahi: A case study of Māori tribal leadership
‘Pārahirahi: a case study of Māori tribal leadership’ explores the changing nature of marae-based, kin-accountable leadership over time and generations in Pārahirahi, Ngāwhā, Northland. It examines leadership in the context ... -
Kua riro ki wīwī, ki wāwā:The causes and effects of Māori migration to Southland
The urbanisation of the Māori population after World War Two saw the rapid movement of a mainly rural people to a number of urban centres around the country. The social, economic and political push-pull factors involved ... -
A Kui mā a Koro mā: he wānanga i te momo iranga i ētahi kōrero Māori o nehe
He wānanga tēnei tuhinga i te iranga e whakaaturia ana i ētahi kōrero tawhito o ngā iwi Māori. E toru ngā tino ara rangahau i whakamahia hei kupenga tātari i ngā whakaaro o nehe. Ko te reo Māori te ara rangahau matua. ... -
Te Okiokinga Mutunga Kore - The Eternal Rest: Investigating Māori Attitudes towards Death.
Metaphorically entitled as ‘te okiokinga mutunga kore’, ‘the eternal rest’, this thesis addresses the research question ‘what are Māori attitudes to death?’, specifically experienced by three major cohorts of people; working ... -
A Comparison of Bilingual-based and Monolingual- based Pedagogy in the Acquisition of Māori as a Second Language He tina ki runga - He tāmore ki raro
There are numerous tertiary institutions throughout Aotearoa that offer Māori language education. These institutions include universities, various polytechnic institutions (Kura Matatini) and various whare wānanga (places ... -
Indigenous Language Revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand and Alba Scotland
Language revitalisation aims to ‘reverse language shift’ (see Fishman, 1991, 2001), that is, to reverse the process of language decline. Language usage in the home and intergenerational transmission are fundamental to the ... -
The Art of Peace: Performative and Arts Based Peace Practices in Contemporary Fiji
This thesis seeks to address the relative absence of literature about grounded and localised approaches to peacebuilding in contemporary Fiji. It documents how and why Fiji artists, activists and Civil Society Organisations ... -
He kupu tuku iho mo tenei reanga : Te ahua o te tuku korero
The primary objective of this thesis focuses on the nature of transmission of oral narratives, based on the relationship formed between the recipient and the source. -
Destablising the Binary: Reframing Cultural Identity Postcolonial Reflections in Aotearoa New Zealand
Historically, prevailing knowledge systems have been challenged, de-centred and replaced and, as a consequence, dualist and oppositional comparisons of knowledge and understanding have been established, such as, ‘traditional’ ... -
He manu hou ahau, he pī ka rere: The transition of Māori language immersion students to the University of Otago
The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the transitional experiences of graduates from Māori language immersion secondary schools to tertiary education. The thesis will show how Māori language immersion ... -
"A Right To Be Māori?" Identity formation of Māori Adoptees
Writings dedicated to the adoption of Māori children or whāngai are minimal and there appears to be very little literature in regards to the affect of adoption on descendants of Māori adoptees. Whāngai has often been ... -
The Foreshore and Seabed Debate: Contrasting Visions of Equality and Rights
This thesis will show that the important Foreshore and Seabed Debate that took place in Aotearoa/New Zealand from 2003 to 2006 was at its heart a conceptual and jurisprudential dispute between contrasting ideas of equality ... -
Ki Uta Ki Tai: He Taoka Tuku Iho
Taiāpure (local fishery) is a fisheries area management tool that emerged in 1989 as part of an interim settlement for Māori Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi fisheries grievances. The legislative provisions for taiāpure ... -
Pacific participation in Aotearoa/Niu Sila Netball: Body image, family, church, culture, education and physical education.
This thesis explores the netball experiences of a selection of people residing in Aotearoa/Niu Sila who have participated or continued to participate in netball. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach, it sheds a light ... -
"He kura Māori, he kura hahi, he kura katorika, he kura motuhake mo te iwi." Hato Paora College : a model of Māori Catholic education.
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. Since their inception, they have contributed ... -
The development of theatre in Easter Island: Hakararama i Te A'amu o Rapa Nui
Hakararama i Te A’amu o Rapa Nui means to show Rapa Nui stories. Easter Island has a unique way of presenting their stories; they use different types of performances throughout the show, such as kai kai (string figures), ...