Wednesday, 26 September 2012

CULTURES & TECHNOLOGY

In the Beginning (Māori Gods)
  • Tāwhirimātea God of the wind and storms
  • Tāne Māhuta God of the forest and all that dwell therein, especially the birds
  • Papatūānuku Mother Earth
  • Ranginui Father sky
  • Tangaroa God of the sea, rivers, lakes and all that live within them
  • Tūmatauenga God of war
  • Rongo God of peace
  • Rūaumoko God of earthquakes and volcanoes
  • Rongo mā Tāne God of kumara and all cultivated foods
  • Haumia-tiketike Guardian spirit of wild food
  • Whiro God of evil

How long ago?
  • 1000 + yrs??
  • Lepta people 
  • First inhabitants
  • European contact
  • Topography 
  • Food shelter

Contemporary Maori Society and Pre Colonisation
  • Hieratical in nature 
  • Whanaungatanga-relationship, connectivity, co-dependant, belonging to, self-worth, responsible to all
  • ‘Ehara taku toa I te toa takitahi, Ēngari ko taku toa ko te takikotahi’, My strength does not lie in working alone. Rather my strength lies in working with others

First European Contact
  • Able Tasman 13 Dec 1642
  • Whalers
  • Cook 6 Oct 1769

Introduction of the "Pou"
  • Maori wars
  • UTU
  • 1840 Te Treaty
  • European Maori land wars land wars
  • New diseases 
  • A dying race
  • New agriculture /fishing methods

Decline in Maori Economics and language
  • Government policies
  • Farming community hindrances
  • Valed racism 
  • Free vote
  • Rebirth of language

The Two Wars
  • Who Fought
  • Colonisation Continues
  • Urban Drift-factory labour
  • Development of new towns
  • Break down in Whanau values/structure 
  • Rise of urban Marae

Health and Education
  • Predominately trained for labour
  • Material Values replaces traditional values
  • Ease of modernity
  • Cross cultural mariages

Adaptability
  • Rebirth of Reo
  • Higher education
  • Treaty settlements
  • Partnership/ownership

Maori Society Today
  • Advanced and retrenched
  • Individuality Verses Collectively
  • Economic bases
  • Treaty Settlements
  • Education
  • Two world Views
  • Raising to the challenge
  • Tug of War between two worlds

Types of Technology
  • Stone
  • Wood
  • Bone
  • Fishing
  • Bird Hunting  
  • Wheel-less
  • Stone age people              




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