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      Ideology is theft: Thoughts on the legitimacy of a Maori psychology

      Tamatea, Armon J.
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      Tamatea, A. J. (2008). Ideology is theft: Thoughts on the legitimacy of a Maori psychology. In Levy, M., Nikora, L.W., Masters-Awatere, B., Rua, M. & Waitoki, W. (Eds). Claiming Spaces: Proceedings of the 2007 National Maori and Pacific Psychologies Symposium 23rd-24th November 2007 (pp. 123-126). Hamilton, New Zealand: Māori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1555
      Abstract
      ‘War, in fact, can be seen as a process of achieving equilibrium among unequal technologies’ (McLuhan, 1964)

      We are at war. As Western science and its accompanying technology expands the frontiers of knowledge at an ever-increasing rate, ‘indigenous’ perspectives of knowledge are exiled into the borderlands of special interest groups and localized research programmes. Mainstream scientific thought lays claim to objective interpretations of experience at the expense of alternative realities offered by emerging theories of knowledge. Furthermore, as localized worldviews (i.e., those derived from ancestral knowledge bases and pre-industrial or non-scientific premises) challenge existing paradigms, the inevitable interactions threaten to undermine the fidelity of this knowledge. One such arena where this ideological conflict is apparent is the growing field of Maori psychology.
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      2008
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      Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato
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