Research Catalog

Title

Tikanga Māori : living by Māori values / Hirini Moko Mead.

Author

Mead, Sidney M.

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : Huia, 2003.

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Additional Authors

University of Awanuiārangi.

Description

x, 398 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"[The author] explores the creative arts and interactions between older and newer social groupings such as iwi and urban Maori authorities; he develops approaches to problems such as violent crime an substance abuse; and he surveys the ways that tikanga guides relationships between people, with the Gods and the land. He also discusses ways that tikanga Maori may help us to direct our stance towards present-day bioethical problems raised by technological advances in areas such as genetic engineering and inter-species organ modification, and he proposes guidelines to help us to test appropriate responses to challenges that may yet be laid down"--p. [4] of cover.

Subject

• Māori (New Zealand people) > Social life and customs
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Rites and ceremonies
• Philosophy, Māori

Note

• "Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-379) and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English with glossary of Māori words.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

He Timatanga Kōrero : introduction to Tikanga Māori -- Ngā Āhuatanga o te Tikanga Māori : the nature of Tikanga Māori -- Nga Pūtake o te Tikanga : underlying principles and values -- Te Tapu o te Tangata : the Tapu of the person -- Wāhi Tapu, Taonga Tapu : the Tapu of places and things -- Te Marae : the ceremonial courtyard -- Te Pōhiri : welcome ceremonies -- Tangihanga : ceremonies of the dead -- Te Muru : the concept of ritual compensation -- Te Tatau Pounamu : peace agreements -- Te Takoha : gift giving -- Rāhui, Aukati : ritual prohibitions -- Whakahuihui Tangata : social groupings -- Te Āhua o te Tangata : the behaviour of people -- Ngā Mahi Auaha : creativity and performance -- Te Tuakiri Te Whenua : identity and land -- Te Whakawhānau : new life -- Mātauranga Māori : knowledge -- Te Whānuitanga o te Tikanga Māori : extensions of Tikanga Māori -- Ngā Ahi E Ngiha Mai Nei : the fires that flare up -- Kua Ea : it is done.

ISBN

1877283886 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004353162

OCLC

• 54678535
• SCSB-12635689

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library