Browsing by Author "Mahuika, Nepia"

• A brief history of Whakapapa: Māori approaches to genealogy 

  Mahuika, Nepia (MDPI AG, 2019)

  Whakapapa is the Māori term for genealogy. It has been described by some as the skeletal structure of Maori epistemology because all things have their own genealogies. In research, whakapapa has been presented in tribal ...

  

• 'Closing the Gaps': From postcolonialism to Kaupapa Māori and beyond. 

  Mahuika, Nepia (University of Auckland, 2011)

  The article discusses New Zealand history, particularly examining Māori theories and interpretations of history. It considers postcolonial theory and Kaupapa Māori theory. The author comments on the government policy of ...

  

• 'Kōrero Tuku Iho': Reconfiguring Oral History and Oral Tradition 

  Mahuika, Nepia (University of Waikato, 2012)

  The studies of oral history and oral tradition each have their own distinctive bodies of literature and preferred methodologies, yet share significant overlaps that make them difficult to differentiate. For many indigenous ...

  

• New Zealand history is Maori history: Tikanga as the ethical foundation of historical scholarship In Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Mahuika, Nepia (University of Auckland, 2015)

  IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE TO FIND that New Zealand history is Māori history. In 1987 when Tipene O’Regan stated that the ‘the past belongs to all New Zealanders, but first it is ours’, he was drawing attention to New ...

  

• An outsider's guide to public oral history in New Zealand 

  Mahuika, Nepia (2017)

  At the beginning of this century, public history in New Zealand was considered a ‘new term’ in historical practice, described as crucial in both ‘the emergence of professional history writing’ and the assertion of ‘cultural ...

  

• Key concepts in Māori and iwi histories: A critique of Te Takanga o te Wā (2015) 

  Palmer, Georgia (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  In 2019, the New Zealand government announced a “reset” of the national history curriculum, with the intention of including more Māori content and addressing ongoing petitions to make the New Zealand Wars compulsory in all ...

  

• The Waikato invasion 1863-1864: A counter-insurgency approach 

  Swears, Calum Robert (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  Counter-insurgency as a strategy has only been explicitly espoused in American and British military tactical manuals in recent decades. It is anachronistic to military terminology before the last half century, but as this ...

  

• Waata Kukutai: Rangatira o Ngaati Tiipa 1822-1867 

  Ewe, Denise Te Tuhi (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  This thesis examines the life of Ngaati Tiipa rangatira Waata Kukutai (1822-1867), and critiques historical perspectives that have narrowly identified him as merely a Kuupapa loyalist. This study argues that Kukutai’s ...

  

• Breaking the Barrier: Maori religious and spiritual entanglements at Aotea 

  Klink, Kelly Moanna (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  In 1889, Ngāti Rehua converted en masse to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). This surprising conversion is remarkable for various reasons. Māori across the country had not only converted to Christianity ...

  

• Imaging and Imagining the Waikato: A Spatial History c.1800-c.1914 

  Dench, Simon Jeffery (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  This thesis reframes the history of the Waikato from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries through a spatial history approach using a visual archive. I argue that Pākehā images of the Waikato were both ...

  

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