New Zealand: Overcoming ‘Being’ In Favour Of Knowledge: The Fixing Effect Of ‘Matauranga’

New Zealand: Overcoming ‘Being’ In Favour Of Knowledge: The Fixing Effect Of ‘Matauranga’ Carl Te Hira Mika, 2011   It is common to hear Maori discuss primordial states of Being, yet in colonisation those very central beliefs are forced into weaker utterances. In this process those utterances merely conform to a colonised agenda. ‘Matauranga’, a tidy term that overwhelmingly refers to an epistemological knowing of the world, colludes nicely with its English equivalent, ‘knowledge’, to...

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