Māori culture

3.1 Globus Campus culture in business links to Maori culture; Potential; Maori have an economic base of US $ 36.9 billion and the Maori are the indigenous peoples of the world 's third largest entrepreneur. Using their business may have significant benefits for New Zealand 's economy Traditional; Maori 's traditional business areas are agriculture, forestry and fisheries, but diversification is now taking place in other areas such as horticulture, wine, energy, renewable energy, information technology and large-scale tourism. Values; More and more organizations around the world are aware of the use value. Maori are being urged to develop business models aligned with their own culture rather than simply replicate western models. Maori have a…

Since the authors who explored cultural decimation through colonization mainly analyzed the situations of native Americans, native Hawaiians, and the Maori natives of New Zealand, these case studies are incorporated in this literature review to contextualize the authorsʻ arguments. In the literature discussing the methods that colonizers employed to acculturate the native peoples they came into contact with, each of the authors assert that these actions were initiated by the colonizersʻ…

New Zealand/Aotearoa smoking contributes to over 5,000 preventable deaths per year (Maori affairs committee 2010). To combat the high number of preventable deaths the New Zealand/ Aotearoa government has chosen to put into action different initiatives and programs to deal with the high number of smokers (Maori affairs committee 2010). The different initiatives and programs that the government implemented can be directly linked back to Foucault governmentality theory (Krasmann 2015). For…

used in my Hawaiian culture . Poi pounders start off as an ordinary rock, like how I was born at birth. An ordinary child , The pedestal which is the bottom of the pounder , represents what holds me and my knowledge. The core represents how my family shaped me into the person I am today , and the top represents my religion. Starting from the bottom of the poi pounder , the pedestal represents my knowledge and what holds me . In my culture we have respect for everyone. If my family and I are at…

Verse 1: Back in 1988 All those talking politicians Words are easy, words are cheap Much cheaper than our priceless land But promises can disappear Just like writing in the sand. Verse 2: This land was never given up This land was never bought and sold The planting of the Union Jack Never changed our law at all. However, “Treaty” as James Jun Wu has suggested, did its part to mitigate the local and national tensions by offering a way of reconciliation (101). It explores the possibility of…

In the film Whale Rider the director Niki Caro shows how the cultural traditions can unite its people and create a sense of unity between the Maori people. The Maori people are a native culture that have been home to New Zealand for over three thousand years. They have a story that has been passed down generation after generation which is the story of Paikea. Paikea was a ancestor that left his homeland Hawaiki on the back of a whale. The filmmaker uses camera, sound and lighting techniques to…

925 A.D, all Maori people like my ancestor, Kupe, came from Hawaiki. As a talented fisherman, Kupe found out that the great octopus had been stealing all his fish and bait whenever he was fishing. Annoyed, Kupe tried to kill it, but all the chasing had come to a named island, by his wife, called Aotearoa (the long white cloud). After destroying the octopus, Kupe and his whanau explored Aotearoa, came back to his homeland to tell all his mates, and then returned to Aotearoa to emigrate there with…

During the film whale rider, we see the characters, Paka and Pai. Paka, growing up the way he did, follows every rule that their tradition has, whereas Pai, being born into the modern world, wants the Maori people to think more progressively. During childbirth, Pai’s mother dies, along with Pai’s twin brother, who was in line for the role of the chief. This is enough change for Paka as he decides that Pai cannot fulfil the role. At first, Paka is just blind to Pai’s ability to be the chief, he…

These historical events include colonization and migration (Glover, 2005). Over 200 years ago the British colonized NZ and settlers brought with them tobacco and introduced it as a means of manipulating and controlling the Maori people (Glover, 2005). As British settlers confiscated the land, the Maori people lost their primary source of income therefore causing them to turn calming effects such as smoking. Over time tobacco became a source of stress relief and thus a behavioural norm amongst…

This paper examines the symbolic importance of Mukudj mask in the culture of Punu community of southern Gabon. The paper follows the historical research methodologies and examines what is the importance of the Mukudj mask to Punu community, how does viewer describe it, and understand the symbolism in the Mukudj mask. The Punu reside on the left bank of the Upper Ngoume River (Gabon), where villages are divided into clans and families, and society known as moukouji. Officiates of moukoudji…