Mtauranga Mori

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InMtauranga Mori, Hirini Moko Mead explores the Mori knowledge system and explainswhat mtauranga Mori is. He looks at how the knowledge system operates, the branchesof knowledge, and the way knowledge is recorded and given expression in te reo Mori andthrough daily activities and formal ceremonies. Mtuaranga Mori is a companion publicationto Hirini Moko Meads best-selling bookTikanga Mori.


Mtauranga Mori is integrated into every activity people engage in. It touches the livesof people in whatever they do, in the way they act, in the way they think, in the way theylearn and in the way their knowledge is shared with others.(Mtauranga Mori)

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Distinguished Professor T Hirini Moko Mead (Ngti Awa,Ngti Twharetoa, Ngi Thoe, Ngti Manawa and Thourangi) isa writer, commentator, composer, artist and tribal leader. He is theauthor of over seventy books, papers and articles. He was foundationprofessor of Mori Studies at Te Herenga Waka Victoria Universityof Wellington and was an inspired founder of Te Whare Wnanga oAwanuirangi in Whakatne. A scholar of Mori language and culture, T Hirini was made a Distinguished Companion of the New ZealandOrder of Merit in 2006 and received a knighthood in 2009 for hisservices to Mori and to education.