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Between people and things: understanding violence and theft in early New Zealand transactions
(University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political Sciences, 2013)
In this thesis some Māori-Māori and Māori-European transactions in pre-colonial New Zealand are examined in detail to establish why physical violence resulted although violence had not been the intention. A methodology ...
Maori political thought in the late nineteenth century: Amicrohistorical study of the document of speeches from John Ballance's tour of seven Maori districts, 1885
(University of Canterbury. History, 2004)
This thesis explores the nature of ambivalence in Maori political thought as expressed during John Ballance's tour of seven Maori districts in 1885. A microhistorical study of Maori speeches recorded during the tour, ...
Ethics in Practice: Conversations about Biobanks
(University of Canterbury. School of Sociology and Anthropology., 2005)
This paper uses the concept of 'ethicality' to analyse focus-group conversations in New Zealand on biobanking and genetic testing. 'Ethicality' has been used by Arohia Durie, a Maori educationist, to highlight how ethical ...
Whānau Coping Under the Circumstance of Multiple Job Holding
(University of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2007)
This thesis explores how Māori whānau cope under the circumstance of multiple job holding in four whānau who have at least one member who is a multiple job holder. The study uses a behavioural model of family resilience ...
Decolonisation starts in a name : moving on from the colonial pretence that 'Maori' or 'indigenous peoples' are explanatory frames
(2016)
This article examines why and how scholars should acknowledge and name each of the diverse political actors and institutions that typically are objectified as 'indigenous peoples' on the global stage, or 'Maori' in New ...
Evangelistic Performance in New Zealand: The Word and What is Not Said
(University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film Studies, 2008)
In 1518, Martin Luther is reputed to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg, an act that sparked the Protestant Reformation. Luther sought change in the Catholic Church: a return to an ...
He Atua, He Tipua, He Takata Rānei: The Dynamics of Change in South Island Māori Oral Traditions
(University of Canterbury. Te Aotahi: Maori and Indigenous Studies, 2008)
The aim of this thesis is to undertake a theoretical analysis of the dynamics of change in pre-Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe oral traditions of Te Waipounamu to gain a deeper understanding of their nature, function, evolution ...
Antoine Marie Garin: A Biographical Study of the Intercultural Dynamic in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
(University of Canterbury. Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2009)
This thesis contributes to the literature on the French Catholic Marist mission in New Zealand by providing the first critical in-depth biography of one of the early French missionaries, Antoine Marie Garin (1810-1889). ...
Religion, Gender and Rank in Maori Society: A Study of Ritual and Social Practice in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Documentary Sources.
(University of Canterbury. Maori and Indigenous Studies, 2000)
The main goal of this work is to understand the role that tapu (the sacred) had in ordering Maori gender relations, and set this role into a wider social context, through an investigation of early documentary sources. ...
Marae: a whakapapa of the Maori marae
(University of Canterbury. Culture, Literature and Society, 2007)
A whakapapa of the marae Whakapapa, a Maori word, is often abstracted to the English language as the word genealogy. Whakapapa however has a more subtle and comprehensive meaning in Maori. In that language it has complex ...
