Māori women

Bodies, spaces, sacredness and mana

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8108916
AutoresWikitoria August (autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen61
Número2
Páginas117-123
Fecha de publicación2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Zealand Journal of Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0028-8292 • E-ISSN: 1745-7939
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-7939.2005.00025.x
OpenAlexW2121717504
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas3

This article examines Māori women and the ways in which their bodies are constituted within particular cultural spaces, namely at urupā and sites where food is gathered. Māori bodily rituals, and the impacts of colonization on these bodily rituals, are explored to reveal a ‘nonwestern’ perspective on exclusion. Kaupapa Māori research and postcolonial theory have been combined to produce research that respects and nurtures Māori practices. Colonial notions of blood and menstruation, which inscribe women as ‘dirty’ and ‘unclean’, are critiqued. What is advocated is a Māori perspective that constructs Māori women as connected to Atua , and as powerful, sacred and life‐giving

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Geography · Menstruation · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Gender Studies