MAOR102 : Maori 102 Lectures.docx

• School: University of Otago
• Department: Maori Studies
• Course: MAOR102
• Professor: Susan Duncan

Document Summary

Ki te whaiao: an introduction to m ori culture and society. Reading: te t matanga mai o ng atua creation narratives. They were common and the europeans were different. Homogenises a wide range of people that were distinct. Before other people came to nz, m ori identity was based on the tribe you belonged to. It wasn"t until outsiders came to nz the m ori had to define themselves as a collective group. The term m ori became the way to describe themselves. When the european arrived maori called them pakeha. When white people arrived to aotearoa they thought they were fairies. Descendants of this ancestor (plus kai, te uri o, Te rarawa (consumers of the houses of the dead). This comes from the event where the tribe went into a village and attacked them and ate them. Because of this event the tribe got the name.