Okay, here is a draft list of the top 'icons' (using the term loosely) of the Māori world, things, cultural items, practices, objects well known in popular culture and consciousness. Here goes:
- Haka (for many, haka represents an echo the unleashed, unbridled, uncultured 'primitive energy', its a bit dangerous and those completely unfamiliar with it, love it)
- Tangi - funerals
- Objects of various kinds - carvings, tiki, meeting houses, waka
- Pōwhiri - ritual of encounter, karanga, wero
- The Māori language, te reo Māori
- Hongi - act of peace, intimacy, mixture of breath
- Marae
- Moko
- Toa - the warrior, prowess
- Waka ama - outrigger canoes
- Taonga Pūoro - musical instruments
This list is entirely debatable. The idea is to understand what are those things emanating from the Māori world which are known popularly, in general culture. It doesn't mean that people understand them necessarily, just that they exist and have some kind of presence in popular culture.
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要像鐵鎚和釘子一樣，永遠向著定點努力。......................................................
Whanaunga! Kei te pewhea? Tena koe mo to turanga hou ki Tamaki. Keen to get in touch with you about your mahi on te ao Maori, contemporary Maori existence, modern day icons and how this might be measured. I am at Stats NZ. We have a Maori Survey of 5,000 people planned to go into the field in 2011. We want to measure how Maori hook up with their identity - whether via ancestral or modern ways or both or none. Keen to have a chat. Tena waeahia mai 021 876 393 ranei imeera mai ranei - atawhai.tibble@stats.govt.nz
格主的部落格內容真豐富~~看得很開心..................................................
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