Te Kauae Maro o Muri-ranga-whenua (The Jawbone of Muri-ranga-whenua)

Tania Marie Ka'ai

doi:10.5130/portal.v2i2.92

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Published: Aug 10, 2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/portal.v2i2.92

Keywords:

Gender, Leadership, Culture, Knowledge, Indigenous, M&#257, ori

Tania Marie Ka'ai

University of Otago

Abstract

This article will illustrate how various tribal traditions are represented, and more importantly misrepresented, in the film. Furthermore, this article concentrates on the education and social status of young M?ori women, demonstrating how the patriarchy/feminism division operates very differently in the Ng?ti Porou tribe than it does either in the movie or in Eurocentric feminisms. A description of why a M?ori/P?keh? (a non-M?ori person of European ancestry) film production aiming at a global market intervenes on tribal cultural reproductions so as to transfigure the role of elders and girls, provides an account of various sites for tribal reproduction (from the local meting place to the globally popular movie) and their relative power.

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2005): Strange Localities: Utopias, Intellectuals and Identities in the 21st Century

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Special Issue Articles (Peer Reviewed)

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Author Biography

Tania Marie Ka'ai, University of Otago

Professor Tania Ka'ai is of Ng?ti Poroua and Ng?i Tahu descent on her mother's side. On her father's side she is of Hawaiian, Samoan and Cook Island descent. She graduated with a DPhil in M?ori Education from the University of Waikato in 1995. In 1996 she was appointed as the foundation chair in the Department of M?ori Studies at the University of Otago. She was the first M?ori woman Professor of M?ori Studies at a University. Professor Ka‘ai has national recognition as a M?ori educator with expertise in history and politics of te reo M?ori and Kaupapa M?ori theory. She has international recognition in Indigenous epistemology. She has written extensively about Kaupapa M?ori education in New Zealand, M?ori leadership, M?ori Sovereignty and a M?ori World-view. She co-edited a book called Ki Te Whaiao – An Introduction to M?ori Culture and Society,which was published in 2004. Professor Ka’ai is the Dean of Te Tumu, School of M?ori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin.

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Tania Marie Ka'ai, University of Otago