Tom Roa
Biographic Data
| ID | 81250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Roa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Roa |
| SIGNATURE | ROA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3774-7891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Weaving Maatauranga: The Ko Tuna Anahe Framework for Culturally Responsive Type 2 Diabetes Education for Maaori Communities
The significant burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) for Maaori populations highlights the crucial need for culturally responsive health education. This study used Kaupapa Maaori participatory action research methodology in collaboration with a semi-rural Waikato community to develop tailored T2D educational resources. The process included initial consultation, thematic analysis, resource development, community feedback, and final refinement. Eleven p…
Genealogies and oral histories as chronological networks: Interfacing whakapapa (Māori genealogies) with Gregorian calendar year archaeological radiocarbon dates
Human genealogies serve multiple functions beyond documenting one's pedigree. They operate as complex social frameworks that structure knowledge, delimit group membership, explain historical causation, are political tools, and provide chronological foundations for understanding past events and processes across diverse knowledge systems. Archaeologists, ethnologists, and historians have long related historical information from genealogies and asso…
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition
Human migration requires developing new relationships with plants. In Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ), settled by Polynesians c. 800 years ago, myriad linguistic and conceptual clues in oral tradition invite examination of this process and the contributions of new and familiar knowledge, to understand the intertwining of social and natural landscapes. We used one enduring form of Māori oral tradition, whakataukī (ancestral sayings), to examine biocul…
Kia kōrerorero tonu ai: A review of the dialogue at the interface of Indigenous oral tradition and archaeology in Aotearoa New Zealand and Oceania
This paper examines the previous theoretical interfaces of Indigenous oral tradition and archaeology in Oceania, specifically in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Historical processes of writing down kōrero , or oral histories, by amateur historians and ethnologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, culminated in the romanticised traditions of the early Polynesian society and influenced contemporary archaeological scholarship. In response to criti…
Collective action is needed to build a more just science system
Tradition and change: Celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events
Cultural wellbeing and resilience are of key importance in many Indigenous communities impacted by colonization processes. Reciprocity and the sharing of an intergenerational way of life in extended family collectives is an enduring cultural obligation. For many communities, hosting large gatherings expresses customary philosophies and practices and brings families together, and food and food systems are central to these events. We partnered with…
Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing ‘difficult histories’, …
Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions
Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal extinctions in New Zealand began just 700 years ago, in contrast to the deep time of continental extinctions. Consequently, indigenous Māori oral tradition includes ancestral sayings that explicitly refer to extinct species. Our…
The first accurate and precise calendar dating of New Zealand Māori Pā, using Otāhau Pā as a case study
The use of the Māori language in species nomenclature
The Linnaean system has a set of rules governing botanical nomenclature, zoological nomenclature and bacteriological nomenclature for the scientific naming of species. These set the principles, rules and standards with which authors should comply with when naming new species. In Aotearoa/New Zealand (ANZ), the knowledge and taxonomic systems of Māori (the indigenous people) have largely been the preserve of Western anthropologists, linguistics an…
Marine resources in Māori oral tradition: He kai moana, he kai mā te hinengaro
Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) was one of the last land masses settled by humans, with the arrival of Māori ca. 1280 AD. This relatively recent human history allows unprecedented opportunity to investigate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in changing environmental and societal contexts. Before European contact, Māori culture had a strongly developed tradition of oral literature, including ancestral sayings (whakataukī). Whakataukī represent one…
The first accurate and precise calendar dating of New Zealand Māori Pā, using Otāhau Pā as a case study
Marine resources in Māori oral tradition: He kai moana, he kai mā te hinengaro
Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) was one of the last land masses settled by humans, with the arrival of Māori ca. 1280 AD. This relatively recent human history allows unprecedented opportunity to investigate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in changing environmental and societal contexts. Before European contact, Māori culture had a strongly developed tradition of oral literature, including ancestral sayings (whakataukī). Whakataukī represent one…
Tradition and change: Celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events
Cultural wellbeing and resilience are of key importance in many Indigenous communities impacted by colonization processes. Reciprocity and the sharing of an intergenerational way of life in extended family collectives is an enduring cultural obligation. For many communities, hosting large gatherings expresses customary philosophies and practices and brings families together, and food and food systems are central to these events. We partnered with…
The use of the Māori language in species nomenclature
The Linnaean system has a set of rules governing botanical nomenclature, zoological nomenclature and bacteriological nomenclature for the scientific naming of species. These set the principles, rules and standards with which authors should comply with when naming new species. In Aotearoa/New Zealand (ANZ), the knowledge and taxonomic systems of Māori (the indigenous people) have largely been the preserve of Western anthropologists, linguistics an…
The use of the Māori language in species nomenclature
The Linnaean system has a set of rules governing botanical nomenclature, zoological nomenclature and bacteriological nomenclature for the scientific naming of species. These set the principles, rules and standards with which authors should comply with when naming new species. In Aotearoa/New Zealand (ANZ), the knowledge and taxonomic systems of Māori (the indigenous people) have largely been the preserve of Western anthropologists, linguistics an…
Marine resources in Māori oral tradition: He kai moana, he kai mā te hinengaro
Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) was one of the last land masses settled by humans, with the arrival of Māori ca. 1280 AD. This relatively recent human history allows unprecedented opportunity to investigate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in changing environmental and societal contexts. Before European contact, Māori culture had a strongly developed tradition of oral literature, including ancestral sayings (whakataukī). Whakataukī represent one…
The first accurate and precise calendar dating of New Zealand Māori Pā, using Otāhau Pā as a case study
Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions
Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal extinctions in New Zealand began just 700 years ago, in contrast to the deep time of continental extinctions. Consequently, indigenous Māori oral tradition includes ancestral sayings that explicitly refer to extinct species. Our…
Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing ‘difficult histories’, …
Collective action is needed to build a more just science system
Tradition and change: Celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events
Cultural wellbeing and resilience are of key importance in many Indigenous communities impacted by colonization processes. Reciprocity and the sharing of an intergenerational way of life in extended family collectives is an enduring cultural obligation. For many communities, hosting large gatherings expresses customary philosophies and practices and brings families together, and food and food systems are central to these events. We partnered with…
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition
Human migration requires developing new relationships with plants. In Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ), settled by Polynesians c. 800 years ago, myriad linguistic and conceptual clues in oral tradition invite examination of this process and the contributions of new and familiar knowledge, to understand the intertwining of social and natural landscapes. We used one enduring form of Māori oral tradition, whakataukī (ancestral sayings), to examine biocul…
Kia kōrerorero tonu ai: A review of the dialogue at the interface of Indigenous oral tradition and archaeology in Aotearoa New Zealand and Oceania
This paper examines the previous theoretical interfaces of Indigenous oral tradition and archaeology in Oceania, specifically in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Historical processes of writing down kōrero , or oral histories, by amateur historians and ethnologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, culminated in the romanticised traditions of the early Polynesian society and influenced contemporary archaeological scholarship. In response to criti…
Genealogies and oral histories as chronological networks: Interfacing whakapapa (Māori genealogies) with Gregorian calendar year archaeological radiocarbon dates
Human genealogies serve multiple functions beyond documenting one's pedigree. They operate as complex social frameworks that structure knowledge, delimit group membership, explain historical causation, are political tools, and provide chronological foundations for understanding past events and processes across diverse knowledge systems. Archaeologists, ethnologists, and historians have long related historical information from genealogies and asso…
Weaving Maatauranga: The Ko Tuna Anahe Framework for Culturally Responsive Type 2 Diabetes Education for Maaori Communities
The significant burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) for Maaori populations highlights the crucial need for culturally responsive health education. This study used Kaupapa Maaori participatory action research methodology in collaboration with a semi-rural Waikato community to develop tailored T2D educational resources. The process included initial consultation, thematic analysis, resource development, community feedback, and final refinement. Eleven p…
Geography (8 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Aotearoa (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works)