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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Waka"”.
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E kore e ngaro, he takere waka nui: Te mātauranga whakatere waka me ōna take nunui
… iwi mātau ki te hanga me te whakatere i ō rātou waka. Ka tupu ngātahi hoki i a rātou tētehi mātauranga whakatere i tarawhitia e rātou ngā tōpito katoa o te Moana nui a Kiwa. Koinei ngā tāngata tuatahi, nāna i kau ngā ara terenga waka onamata. Nō ngā tau maha i muri iho, ka whanake tēnei …
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He moana pukepuke e ekengia e te waka: Navigating a changing climate: A waka voyaging perspective
… what are the impacts of climate change on waka voyaging? Secondly, how can we draw on mātauranga (Māori knowledge) to respond to human-induced climate change? Specifically, the research addresses gaps in the scholarly literature that has yet to consider the unique contributions of waka …
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Hawaiki ora: Waka ama, it's a kind of magic
Waka ama is a heterotopic social space deeply embedded in Te Ao Māori and is navigating transformative currents as it balances cultural integrity and the pursuit of performance excellence. This study investigated the magic of waka ama, namely the magnetic phenomenon that captivated participants, …
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Waka After the Kokinshu: Anatomy of a Cultural Phenomenon
The dissertation is a study of the boom of waka poetry in the tenth century. Waka is approached here as a cultural phenomenon, that is, a complex system of people, practices, and ideas centering around the production, distribution, and consumption of cultural artifacts. Four main aspects of this …
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He Kura-Hāpainga, He Kura-Waka, He Kura-Kōrero, He Kura-Huna, He Kura-Kura
… kua puta i TKKM o HWM; he kura-hāpainga, he kura-waka, he kura-kōrero, he kura-huna, otirā, he kura-kura.
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Oe no Masafusa and the Convergence of the "Ways": The Twilight of Early Chinese Literary Studies and the Rise of Waka Studies in the Long Twelfth Century in Japan
… in the Heian period (794-1185), and kagaku (waka studies), which emerged in the twelfth century. I trace the concept of "way" (michi) as it evolved from the Chinese studies curriculum to an aesthetic "way of life," characterized by a spontaneous and rigorous pursuit of literature and art. The …
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Māori women and gambling: Every day is a war day!
… place of origin (Hawaiiki) to Aotearoa, the Waka, provided an appropriate metaphor to present the interrelationship between the pull and push factors toward gambling, and its implications for society. This is illustrated as a spinning waka, Te Waka Hūrihuri. On the other hand, Te Waka Māia …
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Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE
… innovative poetic adaptation of a kanbun primer, Waka Poems on the Child's Treasury (Mogyu waka, 1204), which makes use of poetic topics and historical anecdotes as effective ways of organizing kanbun knowledge and also suggest the potential for introductory education to spark literary creativity …
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Topics of entropy in locally compact abelian groups
The present MSc thesis discusses some notions of abelian group theory in connection with recent topics of topological entropy of locally compact abelian groups. It has been used the reference of [D. J. S. Robinson, A Course in the Theory of Groups, Springer, 1996, New York], which is a classical …
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On the topological entropy of nilpotent groups of finite rank
The present PhD thesis deals with some finiteness conditions on the topological entropy of continuous endomorphims of periodic locally compact Heisenberg p-groups (p prime). These are relevant models of locally compact nilpotent groups and their structure may be described very well by semidirect …
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Te Kaunati Hikahika a Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti: Ka hika i taku ahi, kimihia e Te Whakatōhea te ara o te tikanga i pai ai te noho i te ao nei
… tōna poropiti a Te Kooti; ko Te Matua Tangata te waka i whakapaua katoatia e Te Whakatōhea ō rātou ngākau, ō rātou kaha, ō rātou whakapono ki a Te Kooti me tōna whakapono hou. Ko te waka tēnei i ūtaina katoatia ō rātou tūmanako ki runga. Te take i whānau mai te whakapono o Te Kooti, arā Te Ringatū …
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Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau: Where identity stands
… values and aspirations of mana whenua. Part 3, Waka, draws on traditional Māori architecture as a living, evolving system, alongside the principles of Cradle to Cradle sustainability. Finally, Part 4, Destination, envisions the proposed architectural outcome as a vessel for reimagining the …
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Be/ing Grace/d. A phenomenological exploration of spiritual encounters with the more-than-human natural world in-crisis
… sacred. A third engagement via a metaphorical waka journey explored Marcel’s philosophies, discovering grace. Engaging with Indigenous metaphysics and aspects of Karen Barad’s (2007) Agential Realism a metaphysics of grace is explored via ‘entanglement’, ‘intra-action’ and ‘mattering’. The …
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Te Whare Tāhuhu Kōrero o Hauraki Revitalising 'Traditional' Māori Language of Hauraki
… o Hauraki. Me hoki ake au ki te mauri o ōku waka o Hauraki, o ōku maunga o Moehau, o Te Aroha, o te tupuna Marutūāhu, o Te Tara o Te-Ika-a-Māui. Me hoki ahau ki te oneone tapu o ōku mātua tūpuna ki te whakatū i Te Whare Tāhuhu Kōrero o Hauraki hei whare pupuru i te mana o ngā taonga kairangi …
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Ngāti Rehua o Te Moananui o Toi: Cobwebs of Colonisation
… form the threads of the sail that powers the waka of Ngāti Rehua. The complexities of Ngāti Rehua identity are explored, focusing on the essence of our life as an iwi; an innate and intentional connection with whenua and moana tupuna, as embodied through tikanga. The thesis also examines the …
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Ngāti Whakaue Māngai Nui
Ko Ngāti Whakaue tētehi iwi ahurei o te waka o Te Arawa. Ko tētehi taha ōna kei ngā tahataha o te kōroto moana o Te Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe, i Waingaehe ki Waimihia. Ko tētehi atu taha ōna kei te ūnga o te waka rongomaiwhiti o Te Arawa, arā ki Maketū. Kua whai mana a Ngāti Whakaue i ngā rautau …
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Te mauri kōhatu : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy, The University of Massey, 2003
… in Aotearoa / New Zealand on board the voyaging waka Tainui. The safe delivery and continued existence, of my ancestors in this land was credited to their belief in the power and the force of Te Mauri Kōhatu. The ancient lore of the Kōhatu guided their movements on both land and sea. Ngāti …
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Case Studies in Ancient Maya Human-Animal Relations: El Perú, La Corona, and Commensal Mammals
… CE) ritual at the sites of La Corona and El Perú-Waka' (henceforth abbreviated as El Perú) in Petén, Guatemala, and to investigate the roles of commensal mammals in ancient economic and belief systems. The discussion is centered on a ritual-economic analysis of human-animal relations as revealed …
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Digital Taniwha: Growing Māori participation in the IT industry
… To respond to these, the study proposes a “Waka Kaitiaki Matihiko” model that connects with widely known Māori metaphors and symbols. It deploys these to inform and capture existing and potential future processes involving digital kaitiaki and to suggest how a culturally supported vehicle …
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