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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"Maori"”.
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Social Relations in a Northland Maori Community
The Maoris today occupy a unique position in the wider New Zealand society. On the one hand, following over a century of intensive contact and political integration with the people of European origin, they now form an inseparable part of the national society. But on the other hand, they also …
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The development of kaupapa Maori : theory and praxis
… and schooling resistance initiatives of 'Kaupapa Maori' which have emerged in the New Zealand context.Of significance in this work is the central organising concept of 'Kaupapa Maori' which has developed from within organic community contexts in response to the reproduction of state: dominant: …
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Maori stereotypes, governmental policies and Maori art in museums today : a case study of the museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Maori art in New Zealand museums has a long history extending back to the first contacts made between Maori (New Zealand's Native peoples) and Europeans. The Europeans settled in New Zealand with a colonialist attitude, leading to the notion that the Maori people would soon be extinct. This …
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Tukua Kia Rere! Maori Adult Students Succeeding at University
A considerable amount of research has focussed on Māori underachievement in mainstream education. There is, however, much less research that celebrates Māori academic success. Even less has been written about the experiences of adult Māori students who return to study long after leaving school and …
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DNA testing for cancer susceptibility : the needs of Maori
… implications and informational potential. Maori people are the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. As a consequence of a colonial history that has had a major impact on Maori health, New Zealand is struggling to reduce significant disparities in the health status of Maori. With the …
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Papatuanuku's Progeny: Foremothers of Maori Women's Poetry Written in English
The primary aim of this thesis is to investigate and archive the lives and poetry of the first Māori women poets who published in English. These seven foremothers of poetry, Papatūānuku’s Progeny, are taonga (treasures) and emerged from the late 1970s. They are Vernice Wineera (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, …
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Governing bodies: a Maori healing tradition in a bicultural state
Biculturalism is a relationship in government between the British Crown and the indigenous [Māori] people of New Zealand. I show that this relationship permeated some Māori healing practitioners’ healing knowledge and perception. A key way in which this occurred was through the practitioners …
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Case roles / relations and discourse relations: A Maori language-based perspective
… respectively) from the perspective of the Maori language. The thesis begins with an outline of the scope of the research and the approaches and methods used (Chapter 1). This is followed by a critical review of selected literature on case roles/ relations (intra-propositional relations) …
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The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law
In 1840 the indigenous Maori tribes of New Zealand ceded the sovereignty of New Zealand to the British Crown in return for the protection of the chiefs' rangatiratanga (internal government of the tribe) and the tribes' lands, forests, and fisheries. This agreement is known as the Treaty of …
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Gospel power for civilization: the CMS missionary perspective on Maori Culture 1830-1860.
… missionaries as they observed and related to Maori people and their culture between 1830 and 1860. It showcases theology as the primary paradigm in which missionaries understood and commented upon Maori, as opposed to other culturally received frameworks. It argues that historians have given …
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Faith, politics and reconciliation: the Roman Catholic Church, New Zealand Maori and indigenous Australians
… able to focus its interest in the advancement of Maori aspiration. Yet, while the Treaty of Waitangi and the associated bicultural discourse have provided contexts for the expression of religious principle, they have also detracted from the Church’s use of its own magisterium as the moral …
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Bringing home the body: Bi/multi racial Maori women's hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… thesis examines the exclusion of bi/multi racial Maori women from dominant representations of Maori women's identity. As such, it engages with a new articulation of Maori women's difference through a narrative of cultural hybridity. Presented in two parts, Part One engages with a theoretical …
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Harakeke (Phormium tenax) ecology and historical management by Maori: The changing landscape in New Zealand
… an important weaving resource for the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand. This research project investigates Maori knowledge of harakeke ecology and management practices prior to the early 20th century within the context of a study of relevant environmental parameters that limit its natural …
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Inter-propositional semantic relations and semantic relational encoding in written discourse in Maori: an investigation
… and groups of sentences) and signalled in Maori. In Chapter 1, the overall research topic and research questions are outlined. Chapter 2 locates the research on inter-propositional semantic relations with reference to the concept of cohesion which is central to inter-propositional …
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Maori participation in higher education: Tainui graduates from the University of Waikato, 1992 to 1997
… of what factors contribute to the success of Maori who participate in higher education. The thesis is informed by the experiences of nine Tainui tribal members who received scholarships from the Tainui Maori Trust Board and who graduated from the University of Waikato between 1992 and 1997. …
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The ‘Marae on Paper’: The Meeting House in the Anglophone Fiction of the Maori Renaissance
The Maori literary renaissance was period of intense literary and cultural activity that coincided with a protest movement surrounding Maori rights in New Zealand during the 1970s and 80s. The Anglophone Maori fiction that flourished during this period raised important social questions about …
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