Our unutterable breath : a Maori indigene's autoethnography of whanaungatanga / Virginia Tamanui.
Dr Tamanui's study began as an inquiry into traditional and contemporary understandings of whanaungatanga aiming to connect a developing Māori indigenous psychology to the on-going struggle for social justice, tino rangatiratanga (absolute sovereignty), and equitable development. She brought to...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Auckland, N.Z. :
Tuhi Tuhi Communications,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCO eBooks |
| Summary: | Dr Tamanui's study began as an inquiry into traditional and contemporary understandings of whanaungatanga aiming to connect a developing Māori indigenous psychology to the on-going struggle for social justice, tino rangatiratanga (absolute sovereignty), and equitable development. She brought together narrative and kaupapa (principle or theme) methodologies to collect whānau (extended Family) stories and trace whakapapa (genealogy). As she gathered these materials, she identified a gap between academic and experiential representations of whanaungatanga and took an indigenous autoethnographic approach to enable an authentic representation. Her reflexive and specific performances interweave critical-theoretical work, diverse lived experiences, and moments of intertextuality to create conceptual/spiritual reciprocity with the experiential record of love, rage, life, death, and relationships. Dr Tamanui's thesis troubles the simplistic view that we can easily grasp the connections between culture and self and explores these connections critically, to give a nuanced theoretical account of how we and our world are continually creating/created and transforming/transformed. --Book. |
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| Item Description: | "Ginia wrote this book as a thesis investigating whanaungathanga, with social justice in mind"--Preface. Prepublication ISBN. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 398 pages) : illustrations (some colour) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0473248158 9780473248154 |