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Week 2: Mana Whenua<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Task 1 (5 minutes)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
REFLECT: Have a look at your responses to the independent study from last week, how did this weeks class discussion deepen or help develop and expand your initial understanding? You could write about this in a sentence or two, or you could go back and add to your original notes.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Sorry to say that reflecting on last week’s independent study and on whether the work in class as groups deepened my initial understanding didn’t really help. Honestly, I don’t think we got any deeper into the concepts working as a group than I’d done independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Task 2 (3 hours – 2 hours reading, 1 hour writing)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
READ: Mere Roberts (Ng\u0101ti Apakura, Ng\u0101ti Hikairo). et al. \"Whakapapa as a M\u0101ori mental construct: Some implications for the debate over genetic modification of organisms.\".  \n\nWRITE: a short definition of your understanding of whakapapa after reading the article, include a key quote from the reading to support your discussion.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This was an interesting article to review in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would now define whakapapa as the description of the lineage that a person or a thing has, and its connection to its source or origin. As a folk taxonomy, wakapapa establishes the person or thing’s nomenclature, and defines a place in a network of relationships, dependencies, and history. It also provides a narrative framework so that this information can be remembered and passed between people, even down through the generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The use of whakapapa by New Zealand M\u0101ori is most commonly understood in reference to human descent lines and relationships, where it functions as a family tree or genealogy. But it also refers to an epistemological framework in which perceived patterns and relationships in nature are located. These nonhuman whakapapa contain information concerning an organism\u2019s theorized origins from supernatural beings, inferred descent lines, and morphological and ecological relationships. In this context whakapapa appear to function at one level as a \u201cfolk taxonomy,\u201d in which morphology, utility, and cultural considerations all play an important role. Such whakapapa also function as ecosystem maps of culturally important resources. More information and meaning is provided by accompanying narratives, which contain explanations for why things came to be the way they are, as well as moral guidelines for correct conduct.<\/p>Mere Roberts, Brad Haami, Richard Benton, Terre Satterfield, Melissa L Finucane, Mark Henare, and Manuka Henare. \u2018Whakapapa as a M\u0101ori Mental Construct: Some Implications for the Debate over Genetic Modification of Organisms\u2019. The Contemporary Pacific<\/em>, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 28.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Task 3 (30 minutes )<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
WRITE, DRAW or SKETCH: Choose ONE of the following:\n\neither a.) Huhana Smith describes the relationship of the stream to the whenua around it.  She also discusses the holistic effect of harakeke on the land, humans and other animals.  Make a visual representation of the ways that harakeke acts as a \"whole of environment healer\" (Smith), this could be as an exploded parts drawing, diagram, flowchart, comic strip etc.\n\nor b.) watch the video The tohor\u0101 and the kauri which considers kauri dieback through a whakapapa based approach. Using Roberts et al. and the information from the video, draw a whakapapa chart that includes the tohor\u0101 and the k\u0101uri.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
a.) whakapapa chart<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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