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Group Assignment Update: For our Zine we have been deciding on many things in the last 2 weeks. Firstly, I made a title stating “Our identity is outdated” which is made up of multiple different adverts from the video in Week 4: Colonisation and Nationalism, and a couple of other adverts that show what makesContinue reading “Week 11: Asian Aotearoa Histories”

Class Notes: “Understanding Samoans” by the vocational training council. Aim of the booklets: trying to have better connections between Samoans and europeans in the work place. Exploiting samoan people by using their cultural beliefs and value systems against them. Their money wouldn’t have been world as much as here in NZ, they would’ve moved fromContinue reading “Week 10:”

Notes from Mana Wahine (book found in library): Te Aroha Anderson  “People say, ‘what about the fact that they don’t speak during the formal part of powhiri?’… My answer is, ‘Why do you think that is a role of mana?’ Why do you think that to whaikorero gives the woman status? How come you don’tContinue reading “Week 9: Decolonising gender and sexuality”

Not just about protection of Maori – more about a broader protection of these things. 2Nd reading: Peoples views on how Māori accepted Gay people before colonisation. Intolerance – Christianity views that thought homosexuality was a sin, trying to put that onto Māori culture with no basis Celebratory – they want to believe in theirContinue reading “Week 8: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Art & Design”

Task 1 (2 hr) Read Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Make notes on the differences between the different versions, and the broader implications of this politically, socially, philosophically, economically, etc. Primary Differences in the treaty: Maori didn’t have any understanding of the term government or sovereign power.  The Maori world Mana was the translation for sovereignty. TheContinue reading “Week 7: Introduction to Assignment 2”

READ: “A “Kiwi” At My Table” by Robyn Kenealy. This is an essay by a former 2nd year student on nationalism and food advertising in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and is an excellent example of how to apply international theoretical texts and concepts to local examples. The concept of ‘banal nationalism’, for instance, was developed by Michael Billig inContinue reading “Week 5: Colonisation and Nationalism”

Inspiration images:

The above image is the official drawn out plan for my practical component. The image of my Grandmother, who has now been taken, in her wedding dress will be printed onto fabric that I can embroider on therefore I can stitch the hills and mountains into her dress. I’m currently starting to embroider the MatarikiContinue reading “Week 4: Te Reo Māori & Te Reo Pākeha”

Whakapapa: interconnections: cosmogony, genealogy, biologically, spiritually, materially, physically. Whaka – to make. Papa – layers Weaving together relationships between species. Westernised views use classification and segregation to identity species. to create rules/guidance for behaviour and for the future. Tikanga – the rules and customs for Māori. Task 1: (3 hours) Matariki is an important conceptContinue reading “Week 3: Mana Tangata”

Task 1: Huhana Smith describes the relationship of the stream to the whenua around it.  She also discusses the holistic effect of harakeke on the land, humans and other animals.  Make a visual representation harakeke as a ‘whole of environment healer’ Task 2: Write a short definition of your understanding of whakapapa after reading theContinue reading “Week 2: Mana Whenua”