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Ten Volumes, a Collection
by Peter Cleave
ISBN 978-1-877229-31-2
Content
1 Papers of Contest, Third Edition, Peter Cleave
ISBN 978-1-877229-28-2 2 Papers to Conference, Third Edition A collection of mostly old but some new work, Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-17-6 3 Papers on Social Work, Second Edition, Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-21-3 4 From the Depot-Takirua, Second Edition, Peter Cleave
ISBN 978-1-877229-29-9
5 Papers on Language, Peter Cleave
ISBN 978-1-877229-19-0
6 What do we know about the mark on the wall? Images, rules and prior knowledge, Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-26-8
7 Culture in the work place, A book of group exercises, Peter Cleave
ISBN 978-1-877229-25-1
8 Rangahau pae iti kahurangi, Research in a small world of light and shade, Second Edition, Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-23-7
9 Iwi Station, a discussion of print, radio and television in Aotearoa/New Zealand , Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-27-5
10 Maori Unpacked, Second Edition, Peter Cleave
ISBN 978-1-877229-74-9
Books in the Collection;
Papers to Conference
Third Edition
A collection of mostly old but some new work
by Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-17-6
Published in 2008
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The present collection starts with a paper on literacy in Aotearoa/New Zealand in the nineteenth century.This is the most recent paper. The collection finishes with a paper on literacy and there are one or two references to this subject throughout without literacy being a major theme.
In fact,the demand for this collection was largely to do with older work and this constitutes the rest of the collection. Some papers are so out of date as to be quaint. Others like the paper on Samoan and Maori may be old but they might have a current application.
One debate that may not be quaint or out of date may be the one discussed in the review of Francis Pound and Wystan Curnow from the early nineties about icons and symbols. We might well ask what happened to this discussion. We might well also ask what the conditions for a talk like this are in 2008.
The essay on the Pa Maori which is really just a review of Best's book may leave questions unanswered in the wider literature.
In the paper entitled Native Voice and in some of the journal work in Aotearoa, especially that found in Illusions in the nineties there is a discussion of new things happening in the arts in Aotearoa.
The discussion of o and a, the so-called case system in Maori is here through demand. It is also a discussion of commentators which is unusual in this area.
By contrast to the the work on literacy and the Pa Maori the social work papers won prizes and were published in international collections. In this sense the collection is a mix of the known and the obscure.
Iwi Station. A discussion of print, radio and television
in Aotearoa/New Zealand
by Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-27-5
Published in 2008
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This book is about communication and power from a tribal point of view in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the world at large. The tribe concerned is the iwi as distinct from the hapu, the sub-tribe or the whanau, the extended family.
The iwi is considered in several historical periods. In each there is a consideration of the communications environment of the iwi be that oral, to do with reading or writing or literacy or to do with electronic media including radio, television and the internet.
There are also two, at least, intense periods of change, the 1850s when Maori was displaced by English as the language of the majority and the period from the early 1990s until the present day characterised by the development of iwi radio and Maori television and the advent of the internet.
The discussion of the internet is really a series of questions. Does the internet allow increased specialisation as well as a greater internationalisation? Are Maori better able to identify common ground and communicate over more space and time than ever before? Is it now possible to find new ground? Does the internet offer freedom from the shackles of a small nation state?
All chapters are about the way that tribes manage communication in the context of a mainstream. Choosing the ground for communication is itself important in this context and there are recurrent issues of control and power.
From the Depot-Takirua
Second Edition
by
Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-29-9
Published in 2008
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There was something of a moment in the late eighties and early nineties in Wellington theatre and over the years From the Depot Takirua has been there as an attempt to grapple with what happened.
This Second Edition of the book begins with an older essay containing reviews of work done at the Depot Takirua. Some of the original essays have been retained and new work on Peter Jackson and Maori Television has been included.
The moment at the Depot Takirua, if such it was, quickly became overtaken by other things. Matters were complicated and, it must be said, enriched by film. The workshopping of the warrior proceeded to the film Once were Warriors and elsewhere. Peter Jackson happened from the early nineties and there was a shift of attention and resources to film. A connection between the work of Peter Jackson and the kind of work work done at the Depot-Takirua is found in the writing of Harry and Stephen Sinclair.
With the advent of Maori Television it is possible to see people who were involved in theatre in the early nineties moving to film and then to television.
But there was a period in the early nineties at the Depot Theatre when things came together. The question now, nearly twenty years later, is how they might line up again in a comparable blaze of creativity or whatever. It might involve the same people. Stephen Sinclair features in the Depot-Takirua story as a writer just as he does in the Peter Jackson story.
The papers on Suzie Cato and on Maori Television are offered on the grounds that television, especially Maori Television, may be the place where things come together in a creative step like that which was made at the Depot Takirua all those years ago. The paper on the grotesque which features the piano is offered as a route taken, as it were, out of the kind of thing happening at the Depot Takirua in the early nineties but so far at least not taken further. Something similar seems to have happened with the warrior project, if that it might be called. These sit in the corners of our minds now like dead ends or cul de sacs. Will we come back to them and will new media like Maori Television be used to do so?
Culture in the work place. A book of group exercises
by Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-25-1
Published in 2008
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How do you work out how to work with other people?
This book is designed to help you do this. The first thing is to consider of culture in your workplace. Then to find better ways of working.
These are the things that matter no matter how removed they might seem from the job at hand. Religion, dress, diet, eye contact and body language. All of these things and more contribute to positive or negative work situations.
This book is not meant to be prescriptive or to tell people what to do in their own workspaces and with their own culture.
The exercises below are offered that they might allow readers to work out their own situations. The idea has been to keep it simple and to allow discussion to happen in a easy fashion.
Papers of Contest
Third Edition
by Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-28-2
Published in 2007
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The theme of this collection of papers is contest. There is a challenge in each paper.
The first paper looks at literacy in the nineteenth century in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
In the next paper conventional research is challenged with an idea of indigenous modes of inquiry.
The following paper looks at confrontational theatre and film in the 1990s.
The discussion of Francis Pound and Wystan Curnow considers images, symbols and the art of a place, a country, I suppose.
The review of Martin Blythe's book involves several of the themes so far considered as well as others and tries to describe an exciting analysis.
The consideration of the native, the outlaw and the frontier widens the perspective of the collection.
The rest of the papers in the collection take the idea of contest into different areas.
The discussion of Suzie Cato takes the discussion into mainstream media in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
By contrast the next article looks at work with perhaps more limited but nonetheless highly critical audiences and the construction of or the playing with a notion of the Pakeha-Maori.
The final paper is a consideration of the grotesque. This raises a number of questions that are left hanging and that, perhaps, is what happens in a collection with the theme of contest.
What do we know about the mark on the wall?
Images, rules and prior knowledge
by
Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-26-8
Published in 2007
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There is a sense in which the work here is dated referring as it does to work done in TESOL in the early nineties. That literature could be updated. There is a question though as to which direction to take from here and there is also the fact that whatever the argument is attached to it will eventually date. The advantage, I think, of the work referred to is that it is of a very high calibre.
Other applications for the argument might well be found. Work on memory from the early childhood area is one possibility but there are others such as developments in educational theory and practice over the last half century.
It may be though that no one major kind of example emerges. The book as it is or in any revision may just use examples from here and there. The theme may be a matter of constant return, going back again and again to questions of cognition and literacy.
Papers on Social Work Second Edition by Peter Cleave ISBN
978-1-877229-21-3
Published in 2007
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These papers venture into several areas of social work but there may be some features that set the collection aside.
The first is an emphasis throughout on social work education. This interest is set out in in the first chapter where there is a comparison between local and European traditions. Work by Carola Khulmann and Peter Cleave appears early in the collection and is then taken further in subsequent papers.
One emphasis or theme which keeps coming up is to do with a ethic. This is touched in the comparison of social work in Germany and Aotearoa/New Zealand, looked at in the article, An ethic of empathy, and touched on again in the article on iwi social services.
Another theme is to do with indigenous ways of research. The paper on rangahau is the most discursive in the collection and the intention here is to take the arguments as far as they might go without necessarily coming to fixed conclusions.
Yet another pertains to the dynamics of small group work in social work learning and teaching. This work is perhaps the most widely published while some of the other papers are offered to a broader readership for the first time.
The consideration of broadcasting and social work is different from the other papers in many respects and, along with the paper on iwi social services, a little tentative in its conclusions These are both new areas of work for me and it shows. In later editions the intention is to refine and develop the arguments involved.
Papers on Language
by
Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-19-0
Published in 2007
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This collection of papers takes work from a variety of sources. The intention is to draw a fairly long bow.
There is some work on literacy which is nor about any language in particular. There is work on Maori grammar. And a paper on strategies for language retention. And there is recent work on literacy and oral communication in Aotearoa.
The transmission of an ethic through language and song is considered in another paper.
The Note on the two or three verb classes in Maori applies to the o an a categories and to the use of i and ki. They are short but hopefully important links which make sense, I think, of a range of questions that might come up.
There are also papers about voice and tone. There is even a paper about a song. These are offered in the hope that language might be considered in the broadest possible terms.
Rangahau pae iti kahurangi
Research in a small world of light and shade
Second Edition
Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-23-7
Published in 2008
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16 The indefinite article he. Unpacking into invisibility? The packing that you don't see...
17 Tense
18 The Passive
19 Let's go round the room again
20 Negatives
21 Not yet
22 Negative imperative
23 More manners for the imperative
24 The Negative tee
25 Kiihai
26 Ehara
27 Kei
28 What? Where? Who? How?
29 Yesterday
30 Tomorrow
31 Let's check the room again
32 Then, And then
33 Numerals
34 Tenses
35 The Perfect
36 Ways of marking tense
37 Because
38 Imperatives
39 Personals
40 Greetings
41 Causatives
42 Grids
43 Connecting nominal phrases, conjunctives
44 Personals and possessives
45 The personal article
46 Adjectives
47 For and By
48 Unpack the actor
49 Gerund
50 When and if
51 Comparisons
52 More comparisons
53 Possessives
54 Relative clauses
55 More relative clauses
56 Ai
57 Even more relatives
58 Manner particles
59 If
60 Therefore
61 Journeys
62 Switching Boxes
63 Unpacking the Agent
Appendix One
A Note on three kinds of verb
P65
Appendix Two
A note on teaching i and ki
P67
Appendix Three
On teaching o and a; Some theory and practice
P69
Bibliography
P79
Glossary
Maori Unpacked takes a word by word approach. The reader is shown what each word is, a noun, a verb, an adjective or whatever. The book may be a useful tool, a way in, so to speak, to the language. The Second Edition gives more examples and more exercises.
Maori Unpacked is also a primer for people wanting to learn the language in a systematic way.
Maori Unpacked has been written in a way that intends to make grammar interesting and fun to use.
There are several Appendices meant to throw light on what has gone before.
Ten Volumes, A Collection is available for NZS 400.00 plus tax (in NZ- GST 697296080) plus pack and post.
Ten Volumes, A Collection is an important addition to any library. Work from the late 1980s is included. There is a second collection planned which includes earlier writing by Dr Cleave and some recent material written in Palmerston North, Paekakariki and as a Member of Common Room at Wolfson College, Oxford. forthcoming after a refereed process;
Starting points? A discussion of contemporary Maori society and culture
Peter Cleave March 2009
Paul Moon in an article entitled A chequered Renaissance:The Evolution of Maori Society (www.tekaharoa.com) suggests that the Hui Taumata of 1984 is a useful starting point in the consideration of contemporary Maori culture and society. In the same journal Hana O'Regan in Toituu te iwi: A Journey in the Evolution of Cultural Identity is talking about how a sense of identity and belonging has grown over much the same period. The Maori language, te reo Maori, has given an edge to the sentiment involved and Moon points to the growth of the Kohanga Reo movement as a key indicator over this period.
The language has become a marker of affirmation; to use it is to imply solidarity. It has also been the medium through which shared values have been expressed. Moon suggests that the pivotal matter in the renaissance he describes is the determination to work together to achieve common goals and in his conclusion he argues that the Hui Taumata of 1984 saw the emergence of a political will. Whether 1984 is the key date in the renaissance and whether that term is the proper description there is no doubt that the use of te reo Maori has been very important over the period. And then there is the matter of how political will and a sense of belonging is communicated and expressed. As Maori have gained more control of media like radio and television in the last ten or fifteen years through iwi radio and Maori Televison so sentiment has been better expressed. The establishment of such institutions as Te Mangai Paho, the organisation responsible for Maori broadcasting and Te Taura Whiri i te Reo, the Maori Language Commission, could also be taken as profitable starting points. Change is happening in areas other than media. Moon's article traces social and economic change from the Hui Taumata of 1984 and he discusses the emergence of FOMA, the Federation of Maori Authorities and many other matters. This idea of a 'renaissance' starting from the mid-eighties begs the question as to when or from when might a student of Maori culture and society start an historical evaluation. Some students might go back a decade to the early and mid seventies when Treaty of Waitangi tags first began to be made to legislation. Others might take a global perspective and go further back in time and say that the civil rights movement in the USA and decolonisation in Africa were the initial motivation points. Still others might question the use of concepts like 'renaissance' and 'evolution'. There have been key events over a long period. The end of the second world war saw Paikea's Maori Social and Economic Advancement Act which allowed for the setting up of the Maori Womens Welfare League and the Maori Council at a time when migration to the cities was occurring and this could be taken as a starting point, The establishment of the Ratana Party in the thirties might also be seen as pivotal as might the establishment of the Young Maori Party in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The historical period chosen will surely go with the sense of the starting point for the student concerned. If there is a spiritual aspect to the inquiry then Ratana might lead to Rua Kenana and then back to Te Whiti and Tohu and then to Te Kooti and on to Te Ua Haumene. If one were looking for expressions of political will as Moon is then FOMA might refer forward to the Maori Party and back to the Ratana movement, the Young Maori Party and the Kingitanga (cf Cleave 1983). The geographical as well as the historical scope of the starting point taken is important. Most Maori now live in cities and many live in Australia. Maori are a minority in New Zealand and Australia and the way change occurs for Maori in each nation state is worth comparing and contrasting. FOMA and Te Ohu Kaimoana, the Maori Fisheries Commission may not be of much use in Australia at this point. Nor, so far, is the Maori Party.
But iwi radio and Maori Television may be important in reaching Maori on both sides of the Tasman as both are available through the internet. Affirmations of belonging to Maori culture happen in Australia through cultural festivals and language learning as they do in New Zealand but there is little mainstream backing from the state in Australia and with church affiliation important but relatively low compared to, say, the Pacific Islands communities, these forms of communication are very important.
Moon skilfully looks at what is offered rather than closing off opportunities. And in many respects this is the correct approach. Maori are no longer bound to a small, isolated settler state. In the age of the internet this is a big wide world.
In some respects though the opportunities of the wide world are changing. The cities would seem to be problematic. To assess this we might look to the work of a local journalists, Jon Stokes (2007)and Chris Barton (2006, 2007) and to a theorist of Southern Africa, Michael Neocosmos (2003).
The work of Stokes and Barton in the New Zealand Herald in 2006 and 2007 on the Ngati Whatua settlement show how difficult, impossible almost, the city situation is in the claiming process. They shows how, in the intense pressure of the city, historians take sides, important documents are lost and leadership issues arise. This produces a stalemate which, the present writer would argue, amounts to a lock out of the locals in their own city.
Neocosmos (ibid) has written of the lock out of the poor and the foreign and the definition of people as official citizens or not in the context of the cities of Southern Africa. It seems hard not to read Barton's work in particular and begin to make comparisons.
A consideration of space, especially the space of the city, could be taken as a starting point. That might lead to a discussion of near and far. To go back into anthropology it might be possible to refer to Edmond Leach (1964) and others. Leach considered concepts of near and far in terms of marriage and other social contracts. Treaty settlements may not be the same thing but concepts of near and far might be useful in considering how the settlement process has worked out.
There has not been a thorough analysis of treaty settlements along these lines but it would seem that the distant sea and the hinterland, the far areas, have yielded, by and large, better returns in the claiming process than claims to the inner city or foreshore, the near areas. The claiming process may have been easier in the South rather than the North Island, more difficult where there is greater social density and easier at a distance from the main population areas.
Anne Salmond (1975) mentions Maori capitals, otherwise out of the way places like Ruatoki and Te Teko. If it were to be mooted that Maori are locked out or prevented from creating a city state in Aotearoa- New Zealand it must be remembered that the developments that, for example, Moon mentions like FOMA, relate back to these rural capitals as well as to the major cities. Each of the wananga are based in rural centres, Raukawa in Otaki, Awanuiarangi in Whakatane and te Wananga o Aotearoa in Te Awamutu.
But where there are coincidences between Maori and mainstream capitals there are issues. In the ex-capital city, Auckland there is, as outlined above, a major problem for the tangata whenua. In Wellington this seems to have been avoided to some degree by the use of a peculiar system of land rights known as tenths. But even in Wellington the idea of Maori claiming the CBD seems difficult.
There is also the need to consider Maori in such cities as Brisbane and Sydney as well as Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Is there a comparable kind of lock out going on in those places and does the work of Neocosmos apply? When incarceration figures for Maori (cf Workman 2006 for a start to reading) are considered the concept of a 'lock out' or a 'lock down' does not seem to be far fetched. Are people being locked out of the city space when they are locked up in prison and removed from the public eye?
Points of development in cities like Auckland or Wellington might be the Urban Maori Authorities in Auckland, the tenths in Wellington or even the PTEs and Wananga. Te Wananga o Aotearoa is well placed in all cities. In Palmerston North the iwi have a major centre within the city boundaries and there may be similar situations elsewhere. But the CBD is not owned by the iwi in any of the bigger cities.
To some extent the thinking of commentators flows from the anthropology that followed the Second World War. Joan Metge's work (cf Metge 2004) traced the second Maori migration from country to city and other anthropological work dating from the mid-fifties until the 1980s gives the impression that cultural authority proceeds from rural sources. But for a significant period now Maori have been urbanised.
Certainly one of the best drawn contrasts between city and countryside is to be found in the film, Once were Warriors. An excellent article by Lawrence McDonald (1995) opens up a path of discussion regarding gender as well as space. In the film Jake and family go for a drive in the country. Jake Heke does not want to return to a rural idyll. Beth, his partner, does. The drive does not work out and the near- far, city-country distinction is shown to be internalised in Jake's part of the Heke whanau at least.
With most Maori living in the city the land they know best is urban land and the foreshore accessible from the city. And here is the nub; Maori value the near, the city and the foreshore and to say that they can live in those places but not own them is an estrangement. Barton's articles show a stalling of the treaty settlement process for Ngat Whatua. With claims on hold there is difficulty in owning land through purchase because of prices being outside the range of tribal members.
The foreshore near Auckland and throughout the rest of the country has been legislated out of consideration. This legislation in 2004 and the opposition to it which included a 20,000 strong hikoi or march on parliament may be seen as another starting point bringing a new approach to the political system but it locks out a major area that Maori can see, touch, enjoy with their families but not own or claim. And to say that Maori can own places in which they do not, by and large, live like the central North Island and the distant seas is really to compound the matter.
If a wider view than Treaty settlements is taken then other points might be made. In the media area, for example, Ngati Whatua have been hugely successful with Mai FM and other ventures. Ahurei or cultural festivals have been very successful in the cities as well as in the rural areas in the last two decades. The Tuhoe Education Authority is another example of development outside the treaty settlement process in the period since 1985.
Moon does not seem to be influenced to any great degree by other local historians. There are issues with historians in some of the positions outlined here. In an article entitled 'When history is on trial' Barton (2007) draws attention to the use of their own historians by claimants in the Ngati Whatua settlement. This has worked to cancel groups out as Group A proves by history that Group B are not the original inhabitants and Group B does the same thing to Group A.
Celebrations of culture are an important starting point. Kaumatua are very influential in these. They are often charismatic figures who follow strict kawa and speak te reo Maori, the Maori language, very well. Often too they are involved with cultural festivals, ahurei which happen on a tribal or national basis at regular intervals. And, significantly, they are experts in whakapapa or genealogy providing a sense of myth, history and identity to the people around them. Sometimes they are healers and seers.
Kaumatua adjudicate on the kawa of the occasion and this puts them in a controversial position in cross cultural situations as with the matter of women speaking on marae, the order of speakers and knowing when and how to open and close situations. They may well be the point to start with on occasions of public display.
There is not a great deal of serious analysis of kaumatua as a group but there ae some good discussions of individual kaumatua (cf King 2003, Salmond 2005a. 2005b). In kanohi ki te kanohi or face to face situations such as the ahurei or in marae interaction kaumatua are very powerful. They provide models of behaviour, models of conformity. Kaumatua open and close ceremonies with karakia. Kaumatua work in a locally defined atmosphere and it is difficult to find offshore analogies.
Having said that kaumatua are important in Australia as well as New Zealand. Kaumatua organise and run events in the whare nui, they set down and follow protocols. In churches and homes in Australia, even where there are not carved meeting houses, wharenui, kaumatua are very important in the way meetings and gatherings are run.
Kaumatua and the kawa they run are transportable, from country to city, from Aotearoa to Australia. The protocols of the whare, taking whare to mean the way a room is organised when kaupapa Maori is followed, may be a starting point. There is some literature on the kawa of the whare (cf Cleave 2008) and there is some excellent discussions of house or church reconstruction (cf Sundt 2008a, 2008b).
With regard to ahurei there might even be a case for taking performance as a starting point. The success of iwi radio and Maori Television proceeds, in some respects from the same impulse to perform.
One background perspective for O Regan's position might be the development of Maori Studies over the last half century. There has been an intellectual repositioning. Within this period Maori Studies has established itself in the universities and provided a good part of the thinking now found in wananga. Education departments especially at Auckland University in the 1980s and 1990s have also been influential and leadership positions are sometimes taken up now by people coming out of that background.
Social work eduction emphasising collective and shared value systems and the use of te reo and waiata in social work is another form of this repositioning (cf Cleave and Cairns 1998, Cleave 2000, Cleave and Khulmann 2000). Some of this research has provided background for such developments as the Tuhoe Educatio Authority, an iwi based organisation which has come into being over the period set out by Moon.
Elsewhere (cf 2009 most recently) the present writer has referred to Graham Smith and others as an influential group of commentators. The values outlined in their work might be seen as a major part of this repositioning process which is to do with critique and has a rich background over a significant period referring back to Linda Tuhiwai's seminal work (1994) on Kaupapa Maori.
Part of the value cluster is cultural safety and Smith's work sits with Kathy Irwin's and others in such a way as to provide an underpinning for this notion. Mentorship of a culturally appropriate kind is very important and the involvement of kaumatua in research is especially important.
The line of influential kaumatua mentioned earlier are very important in this value cluster. They give an edge to sentiment and provide focus points for others. Part of that edge is the authority and the knowledge that they have with tikanga. Another part of that edge is their skill in te reo as they are called upon to articulate concepts central to Maori culture.
The emergence of the Kaupapa Maori position happened in the context of the exclusion of a Maori perspective from official sources as the discussion quoted below indicates;
L.T. Smith...talks about Kathy Irwin’s characterisation of Kaupapa Maori research as research undertaken by a Maori researcher that is culturally safe which involves ‘the mentorship’ of kaumatua which is culturally relevant and appropriate while satisfying the rigour of research. It is suggested that there is a right wing situation in the country where a purchasing of research occurs through such organisations as the Foundation for Science Research and Technology in such a way as to be positivist and not necessarily to be in the interests of Maori. Cleave 2009
It might be argued that in the last few decades Kaupapa Maori has become part of the Wananga movement as the three Wananga have developed in Aotearoa. All of them have a powerful commitment to the principles involved in Kaupapa Maori.
There is one starting point that influences all others and that is the transmission and use of te reo Maori. Since the early seventies a variety of approaches have been employed with an overall effect of great success. In the early and mid eighties, sitting quite neatly with Moon's thesis of a new determination after 1984, the Waitangi Tribunal began to consider submissions on te reo Maori.
The tribunal released its report on the language claim in 1986. It recommended five ways forward. The first was to pass laws allowing te reo Maori to be used in courts and dealings with local and central government. There were also recommendations to establish a statutory body to 'supervise and foster the use of the Maori language', examine the teaching of te reo Maori and 'ensure that all children who wish to learn Maori should be able to do so', recognise and protect te reo in broadcasting and ensure that speaking both Maori and English be a necessary or desirable requirement for certain public service positions.
This meant that there was an across-the-board approach which worked so that the language was to be used in all or most circumstances and with this came a attitude to consider Maori isues in a spirit of positive problem solving. Te reo may have been a trigger for the political will that Moon sees after 1984.
Kristiansen, Harwood and Giles (1991) point to three things in language support and development, the social status of language, institutional support and demographic support. With Maori becoming an official language in 1987 there was a movement forward in the first matter and with the Tribunal's call for increased use of the language in the five areas set out above there was progress in the second area as well.
Demographic support may be another matter as the Te Puni Kokiri report on the language of 1998 might seem to indicate but perhaps the initiatives taken in the eighties will take several generations to effect demographic change. There seems to be no question though that over the period fro 1985 Maori has been spoken more in public. This may have been on the radio, on television, at ahurei or at public openings and closures of events. From the mid-eighties Maori was no longer a language confined to the margins but placed into a central position on political and social life in Aotearoa- New Zealand.
A fourth, possibly covered by one or more of the first three matters set out by Kristiansen et alia but worth spelling out nonetheless might be how a language is learned, taught and transmitted. The approaches used have included effective ways of instruction as in Te Ataarangi or the practice of language teachers like T S Karetu and John Moorfield, the support systems in mainstream education as well as in Te Kohanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa Maori, Whare Kura and Wananga and the encouragement of the Maori Language Commission, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo. Also the use of radio and television as vehicles of expression and the performance in te reo at ahurei and elsewhere have been important.
With regard to other starting points there is interesting work done by Toon Van Meijl on Tainui (Van Mejl 2003). This is found in a special edition of the Journal of the Polynesian Society (2003) edited by Van Mejl and Michael Goldsmith. Van Mejl describes the way hapu and iwi are organised with regard to treaty settlements. In so doing he offers a starting point in terms of social and political organisation. Goldsmith considers cultural safety and offers insights into a range of terms in his article on 'Culturespeak'. He does not mention 'evolution' or 'renaissance' but he does talk about 'biculturalism' and 'multiculturalism' and points to work by Wetherell and Potter (1992). However a student starts and from whatever position a consideration of terms used is extremely important.
It may be that we can identify distinct points of reference for some of the starting points discussed. Moon refers to the corpus of theoretical work in Development Studies. Goldsmith and Van Mejl refer to Charles Taylor (1992) and Will Kymlicka (1995, 2001) and O'Regan's work, as argued above, has echoes in Maori Studies, in the work of kaumatua, in Kaupapa Maori and in the Wananga.
There are several other possible starting points. There is Steven Webster (1998) and his approach. Webster refers to theorists of power and ideology. He is also interested in patronage. Webster stays with the idea of a Maori renaissance.
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Starting from the other end of the Waitangi process, as it were, the distribution process needs to be properly worked out. There is not a lot written on this which is curious. Barton's work (ibid) intimates how difficult this might be and Gould (ibid) comes closest to this and he shows the difficulties that have to be surmounted.
With respect to other starting points one could look at films like Vincent Ward's Rain of the Children which proceeds from the condition of people marginalised at the edge of the Urewera (cf McDonald, ibid). There is a transition from the rural margins to the city of Rua Kenana at Maungapohatu, a city made impossible by the state as it is sacked by the constabulary. In city and in country the woman and her special needs son are locked out and marginalised. They live with prophecy, prayer and abject poverty.
The present writer has pointed toward oral and visual communication through iwi radio and Maori television as a starting point (Cleave 2008a). That has involved a discussion of oral and visual communication as distinct from print media and here it may be worth noting that the popularity of the ahurei rests to some considerable extent on the comfort of participants in competing in oral and visual media. There is also a discussion of literacy and oral communication in www.tekaharoa.com which questions some of the assumptions in both of these areas and reflects on Moon's critique of Jackson and others (Cleave 2008b).
One could profitably start by going back to earlier anthropological work by Joan Metge. Anne Salmond's work stands out. As the discussion of the city above might show there may now be a need to start again with a cultural analysis simply because Maori society and culture have been in a state of change for so long. What is the culture of the Maori urban dweller?
The foreshore protests of 2004 was followed by the emergence of the Maori Party. Having said that there was more to the party than a single issue and it may also be possible now to take Maori politics as a starting point. There has been a repositioning here just as there has been with Kaupapa Maori and Wananga.
Some things seem, in 2009 to not be as popular as they were before as starting points. Biculturalism, for example. Partnership is another word not heard as much these days as, perhaps, is renaissance. Goldsmith's critique of some of these terms (ibid) has been mentioned. And important in a consideration of the two worlds idea is Peter Munz's critique of Anne Salmond and her response which also offer a opportunity to reconsider such terms (Munz 1998, Salmond 1992, 1998). Goldsmith and Van Mejl's (ibid) introduction where they consider multiculturalism is very useful as well.
Some national institutions would need to be considered as starting points. In New Zealand the parliament is one and Moon (ibid) documents the increase in Maori membership and influence in the Zealand Parliament since the mid eighties. There are also the universities and the museums and the national radio and television systems. A study of Maori culture and society need not only consider alternative systems.
Are these all starting points or are some actually finishing points? An analysis of Barton (ibid) might conclude that a process has not worked and there might be a need for new beginnings, a better way to do things. Barton does not say as much but the conclusion that there might be a better way seems difficult to avoid. Neocosmos (ibid) is identifying the city in Southern Africa as a problematic area which is calling out for new approaches and something of that might be taken aboard in considerations of Maori culture and society in the cities of New Zealand and Australia.
Barton and Van Mejl are iwi specific as is O'Regan. This raises the question as to which of the waka, the iwi, hapu, or whanau might be a better place to start than te iwi Maori. Gould's work (1992) is interesting and important in this regard. He is suggesting that there are considerable economic distinctions amongst iwi. There is a need now for an economic analysis of Maori in Australia.
There is a real pace about iwi matters now as always and assessing the pace and shape of that momentum may be a challenge. As with many situations involving the assertion of a stronger, more positive image there may be distortions as people look at themselves. Or has the effect of increased communication on iwi radio and Maori Television which have developed over the last two decades been to correct this kind of distortion?
Whereas formerly the media tools for analysis and communication were mediated and controlled by the majority culture Maori now have the means of communication. To work this out as a starting point the theorists of communication going back to McLuhan (cf McLuhan 1964, Castells 1996, 1997, 1998) and before might need to be considered as might some of the best local commentators. The quality of Laurence McDonald's work has been mentioned but his editorship of Illusions, a journal of film and theatre in New Zealand ought also to be considered here along with Roy Nash's work on cultural deficit (1983).
The discussion of history and historiography above as Moon's renaissance has been considered could be taken back to the great debates about history and myrh, to Wallerstein (1974) or to Levi Strauss (1968). And some general questions might be asked. Do these various starting points have different destinations? Do they generate distinct and different scripts? Would it matter if they did?
Paul Moon's period from 1984 has been considered seriously in the above. The establisment of Maori people in the space of the city and their lock out or alienation from that space has been has been one feature of this period. The period coincides historically with the introduction of Rogernomics. As Maori found themselves in cities support systems and job opportunities were taken from them. It was suggested above that the film Once were warriors and McDonald's commentary (ibid) on it provide a statement on the period which is characterised by unacceptable rates of incarceration and health indicators such as diabetes rates.
The period is also characterised, it has been suggested, by the public use of te reo Maori. The five dimensions officially encouraged following the Waitangi Tribunal's rulings in 1986 and the making of Maori an official language in 1987 are aspects of a language trigger which stimulated and helped to define the political will that emerged, Moon suggests, over the period.
Taken as a set of starting points there is a tremendous vitality in the commentary discussed above. There are success stories and there are stalemates. But the vibrancy of the starting points discussed above, taken singly or as a wider set, indicate an exciting scenario.
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