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The significance of tapu in Maori Christianity : the relevance of tapu for Maori religion towards church growth.Gadiki, V. (Vasi), n/a January 1982 (has links)
The significance of tapu in Maori Christianity is a task best investigated by Maoris themselves, however, it is a challenge for an outsider to make an attempt, which demands a great deal of personnal experience of socio-political and religions of the people. The translation of Christian experience in the local religious terms would have become beneficial to the Maori Christians. This dissertation is the outcome of library research so that the views expressed are the result of materials consulted. There may have been other up to date materials however with limited time required for such investigation they were not able to be consulted and those consulted may not have been interpreted correctly. However, an attempt had been made in order to interest others for further investigation to encourage and build the Church of God among the Maoris.
The attempt made in the following pages was to identify the function of tapu in Maori society in the past and the present and its influence in Christian belief and experience today. To identify tapu experience in Maori Christianity today we have tried to define tapu as it was present in the past religious belief and practise and as it is maintained today. Tapu as protective prohibitions in the past continue to influence Christian belief and practise in the present day. In the second section we have tried to identify the source of tapu. The sacredness or tapu originated from Io the supreme being which was bestowed upon the first born male child of human being by Tane through the three baskets of knowledge and the sacred stones. Tane had received these items at the twelveth heavens from Io the originator, the father of all things.
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The Negotiation of Takapuneke: A study of Maori-State relations and the investment of value in tapu landsHuddleston, Chad January 2008 (has links)
This thesis focuses on the contested nature of landscape in New Zealand and on the
complex relationships and social processes that are associated with that contest. This
includes relationships between people as well as relationships between people and land.
A landscape may be seen as a culmination of lived daily experience that acts as a
repository for our memories of events and experiences to which we are connected. As we
remember or forget our experiences or events, we construct narratives relating how we are
tied to our landscape and what that may mean. This becomes a compounded process as
more than one group adds different stories that are vying to be told.
Even though New Zealand is a post-colonial nation, neither the groups involved, nor their
stories can be divided between primordial categories like colonial or Indigenous. Following
this, the anthropology of the State informs us that the State is not a unified organization,
but rather is imagined as such through our daily experience with individual institutions that
are associated with it. Therefore, the struggle here, I will argue, is between multiple agents
that are attempting to position themselves in relation to each other and their shared,
multilayered landscape. According to Bourdieu (1998), the lesser goal of this struggle is to
maintain or gain social position in relation to the other groups; the greater goal is the ability
to reproduce the landscape according to their own interests. In order to do so, groups
agree to the value of resources, which Bourdieu calls capital, and then struggle for the
ability to control them or direct their use. This thesis aims to explain how those
groups move toward those goals.
More specifically, I address these issues through my fieldwork with Maori from Onuku on
Banks Peninsula, New Zealand and three non-Maori organizations that are involved with
the site. My interviews and observations with participants focused on the site of
Takapuneke, which was the location of a massacre of the Onuku communityʼs relations in
1830. This site was chosen because of an initial threat of development that would have
destroyed its inherent meaning to the local Maori community. My fieldwork will analyze that
data to understand the Onuku Runangaʼs (council) construction of Takapuneke as
tapu, which is often taken to mean ʻsacredʼ. My analysis will also show the constructions
of the site as strictly historical by the non-Maori organizations and the perceptions behind
those constructions. I find that the outcome of these complex relationships over the site of
Takapuneke is that there is no determined result to the struggle that has been and
continues to take place over the issues around the site. These issues are in process just
as are the constructions of the landscape and the relationships between all of those
involved. While there has been a stabilization of the situation, which I will discuss, that is
merely temporary due to the fact that the groups involved have varying amounts of agency
(and capital) that they can exercise in order to continue the struggle when the conditions
benefit them.
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Kimihia, rangahaua ngā tikanga heke iho. He taonga huahua e riro mai: Exploring whakapapa as a tool towards a kaupapa Māori assessment framework in early childhood educationPaki, Vanessa Anne January 2007 (has links)
This study explores whakapapa as a tool, which can be used as a kaupapa Māori assessment framework in early childhood education, positioning kaupapa Māori theory as a paradigm base underpinning a philosophical and theoretical discourse towards assessment for children's learning. This thesis represents the culmination of a personal and professional journey, derived from the writer's longstanding interest in and commitment to kaupapa Māori early childhood education, and more specifically, philosophies and practices for assessment in this context. The study has canvassed a vast terrain of kaupapa Māori philosophy in its search for a theoretical grounding for a kaupapa Māori assessment framework for early childhood education. Foundation to the study has been the premise that the notion of whakapapa serves as an overarching philosophical matrix, encompassing the interconnected realms of genealogy, spirituality, and knowledge that precede, surround, and embrace the Māori child. Throughout the thesis, diagrams are employed to demonstrate and model the whakapapa underpinning the conceptualisations being explored. After contextualising the study within a historical overview of the impact of colonisation of kaupapa Māori education and research, it is suggested that a re-examination of key concepts from tikanga Māori will illuminate transformative possibilities applicable to the study's focus on the development of a theoretical base for an assessment tool within kaupapa Māori early childhood settings. Drawing from the literature, the thesis re-positions the view of the Māori child to one of being nurtured within a philosophical construct underpinned and immersed in tikanga such as whakapapa, ira tangata, whanaungatanga, mana and tapu, and ako, providing a strongly Māori theoretical base for the envisioning of the assessment process. The outcome of this study is to propose an assessment framework, which embodies and reflects these core kaupapa Māori philosophies as praxis.
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The negotiation of Takapuneke : a study of Maori-State relations and the investment of value in tapu lands : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology in the University of Canterbury /Huddleston, Chad M. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2008. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-204). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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The Rebellious Mirror,Before and after 1984:Community-based theatre in AotearoaMaunder, Paul Allan January 2010 (has links)
In this thesis I outline the contribution Community-based theatre has made to New Zealand theatre. This involves a defining of theatre production as a material practice. Community-based theatre was a tendency from the 1930s, a promise of the left theatre movement and, I argue, was being searched for as a form of practice by the avant-garde, experimental practitioners of the 1970s. At the same time, early Māori theatre began as a Community-based practice before moving into the mainstream.
With the arrival of neo-liberalism to Aotearoa in 1984, community groups and Community-based theatre could become official providers within the political system. This led to a flowering of practices, which I describe, together with the tensions that arise from being a part of that system. However, neo-liberalism introduced managerial practices into state contracting and patronage policy, which effectively denied this flowering the sustenance deserved. At the same time, these policies commodified mainstream theatre production.
In conclusion, I argue that in the current situation of global crisis, Community-based theatre practice has a continuing role to play in giving voice to the multitude and by being a practice of the Common.
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