Mai I Rangiåatea Maori Wellbeing and Development |
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| Editor:
| Whaiti, Pania Te
Durie, Arohia |
| Author:
| McCarthy, Marie |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86940-135-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1997 |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $38.95 |
Book Description:
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Mai i Rangiatea provides some Maori perceptions of healthy growth and development. It introduces a Maori developmental discourse which affirms a cultural base with an affinity to the discourses of other indigenous peoples. Western concepts of human development have oversimplified the process by emphasizing individuality as the core, then generalizing to the whole. Maori acknowledgment of the interdependency between the individual and the group gives some basis...
More Description Mai i Rangiatea provides some Maori perceptions of healthy growth and development. It introduces a Maori developmental discourse which affirms a cultural base with an affinity to the discourses of other indigenous peoples.
Western concepts of human development have oversimplified the process by emphasizing individuality as the core, then generalizing to the whole. Maori acknowledgment of the interdependency between the individual and the group gives some basis for alternative discourses.