Mai Misaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 156801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mai Misaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mai |
| FAMILY NAME | Misaki |
| SIGNATURE | MISAKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7053-8234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Liberty of Land, Liberty for God
This paper will discuss tiàmāraa faaroo, the concept of religious sovereignty advocated in the Māòhi Protestant Church in French Polynesia, and how it intersects with the idea of political sovereignty. Whilst territorial politics revolves around the possibility of national independence, religious sovereignty suspends the idea of political self-governance, and instead promotes the recovery of Indigenous relationships with the land, a core doctrine…
"The double bind of "Shame
This article discusses the multifaceted and shifting nature of "shame" (ha'amā) associated with Tahitian, one of the Indigenous languages of French Polynesia. Despite congregants at the Mā'ohi Protestant Church contesting the colonial degradation of Mā'ohi Indigeneity and promoting the spiritual significance of Indigenous languages, the idea of shame and awkwardness attached to speaking practices remains the largest psychological obstacle for lan…
Rā’au mā’ohi
This paper explores the debate on the resurgence of rā’au mā’ohi, a traditional healing system in French Polynesia. While the practice has been in decline due to the more accessible medical infrastructure, the local Protestant denomination, Église protestante mā’ohi (epm), re-evaluates the religious quality of the healing practice in an attempt to revitalise it. epm’s recent practice involves the public distribution of rā’au mā’ohi at liturgies, …
Colonial Rupture and Native Continuity in Indigenous Cultural Representations
This article discusses the role of colonial oppression in creating conflicting perspectives in the reproduction of dance as Indigenous cultural heritage. The debate on kahiko, the ancient Hawaiian dance, of which practice was severely controlled and then revived through the cultural renaissance, demonstrates that the radical deprivation of the practice has created multiple understandings of the dance among different practitioners. Of primary impo…
"The double bind of "Shame
This article discusses the multifaceted and shifting nature of "shame" (ha'amā) associated with Tahitian, one of the Indigenous languages of French Polynesia. Despite congregants at the Mā'ohi Protestant Church contesting the colonial degradation of Mā'ohi Indigeneity and promoting the spiritual significance of Indigenous languages, the idea of shame and awkwardness attached to speaking practices remains the largest psychological obstacle for lan…
Rā’au mā’ohi
This paper explores the debate on the resurgence of rā’au mā’ohi, a traditional healing system in French Polynesia. While the practice has been in decline due to the more accessible medical infrastructure, the local Protestant denomination, Église protestante mā’ohi (epm), re-evaluates the religious quality of the healing practice in an attempt to revitalise it. epm’s recent practice involves the public distribution of rā’au mā’ohi at liturgies, …
Rā’au mā’ohi
This paper explores the debate on the resurgence of rā’au mā’ohi, a traditional healing system in French Polynesia. While the practice has been in decline due to the more accessible medical infrastructure, the local Protestant denomination, Église protestante mā’ohi (epm), re-evaluates the religious quality of the healing practice in an attempt to revitalise it. epm’s recent practice involves the public distribution of rā’au mā’ohi at liturgies, …
Colonial Rupture and Native Continuity in Indigenous Cultural Representations
This article discusses the role of colonial oppression in creating conflicting perspectives in the reproduction of dance as Indigenous cultural heritage. The debate on kahiko, the ancient Hawaiian dance, of which practice was severely controlled and then revived through the cultural renaissance, demonstrates that the radical deprivation of the practice has created multiple understandings of the dance among different practitioners. Of primary impo…
"The double bind of "Shame
This article discusses the multifaceted and shifting nature of "shame" (ha'amā) associated with Tahitian, one of the Indigenous languages of French Polynesia. Despite congregants at the Mā'ohi Protestant Church contesting the colonial degradation of Mā'ohi Indigeneity and promoting the spiritual significance of Indigenous languages, the idea of shame and awkwardness attached to speaking practices remains the largest psychological obstacle for lan…
Liberty of Land, Liberty for God
This paper will discuss tiàmāraa faaroo, the concept of religious sovereignty advocated in the Māòhi Protestant Church in French Polynesia, and how it intersects with the idea of political sovereignty. Whilst territorial politics revolves around the possibility of national independence, religious sovereignty suspends the idea of political self-governance, and instead promotes the recovery of Indigenous relationships with the land, a core doctrine…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)