Maori Culture: New Zealand 뉴질랜드에서의 마오리족 문화
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Maori Culture:
New Zealand
History
10th Century A.D. - 1st people to discover New Zealand were from Eastern Polynesia.
Canoe Voyages brought people from Hawaiki – “ancestral homeland” to NZ over 100 years and they became the Maori tribes.
Canoes and their names were important in determining Maori’s geological history.
History continued
February 6, 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by over 500 Maori chiefs.
Became a British colony
Agreed that Queen of England would have sovereignty over their land because they had no national government or form of laws
She would protect them and they still get to retain possession of their land
However in the 1860’s, land wars began to erupt because the Pakeha people “white strangers” were trying to take their land.
Led to the Maori King movement – protecting lands by uniting under a paramount chief
Maori Mythology
Until the 19th Century, Maori transferred history down the generations by word-of-mouth (Especially through song and dance)
The Beginning – Nothingness and after nine nothingnesses became the dawn. From the womb of the darkness came the Sky father and the Earth mother. They had 6 children: god of the winds, god of the forest, etc… They separated their parents and there became light. All the children were male so the sky father created a woman out of soil.
Maori Culture
Means ordinary or usual. They call themselves “people of the land”
Pastoralists – grow crops such as Kumara – sweet potato
They are ruled by tribal chiefs
Hierarchical society
Culture
Headed by chiefs, followed by priests, then by commoners, and then slaves. Ariki’s are their leaders within their tribes - gain authority through genealogy and Rangatira are the aristocracy of their society and are the children of the Ariki. Usually male figures.
The extended families lived together in huts grouped into villages anywhere from a few to 500 households. The families were sub tribes that are a part of a wider tribe which established their social structure. Each tribe had the same ancestor that came from Hawaiki on a certain canoe.
This determined marriage, settlement patterns, and who fought whom.
Warfare
Intertribal warfare are essential parts of their culture.
It was their way of gaining control of their land.
After defeating a tribe, they either eat the defeated (ultimate insult) or they take the women and children to be their slaves.
Their weapons consisted of long or short wooden clubs resembling spear, but are not thrown.
Daily Tasks
Men – prepare agricultural plots, fish in the open sea, dive for shellfish, only ones allowed to go to war, build canoes and tattoo and carve.
Women – do the planting, bring food out to men when fishing, only ones allowed to cook, weave and make cloaks.
The final say in family matters rested on the male head of the household.
Delineation of responsibility was ruled by the complex laws of tapu (taboo)
Boy children are taught to be warriors, girl children help their mothers with household chores.
Key Values of their Culture
Spirituality – everyone has an active life force, soul and spirit, and personal spiritual prestige and power.
Land – Mountains and rivers delineated tribal boundaries. Mountains were personified and became part of their social identity.
Hospitality – People are the most important things in the world. Important part of Maori Society
Ancestors – Proper reverence to ancestors is important. Genealogy has to be committed to memory
Largely a collective society, not individualistic
Marae –Ancestral house
Where Ancestral spirits live – sense of home
Meeting house that is the link between sky father and earth mother.
Visitors assemble outside gates and women call them to come in (do Karanga). All visitors are challenged by the male Maori making fierce faces and noises showing that they are ready for war. Visitors then show that they come in peace. Shoes have to be taken off and they give a gift.
Bongi – traditional pressing of noses (mingles breath showing unity)
Death
A body should not be left on it’s own after death. They place them on the marae where it can be watched over by their relatives until burial.
They will leave the coffin open so they can touch and weep over the body in order to relieve emotional pain.
The funeral speeches are made directly to the body because they believe that the spirit does not leave the body till burial
Dead bodies of chiefs are left exposed on platforms until flesh rots and they take certain bones and clean them and paint them red and put them in a burial chest and placed in a cave or other sacred sites.
Food, clothing, and art
Cook food in earth ovens – dig a pit with wood and stones on top – heat stones
Maori delicacies – freshwater eels, mutton birds, and seafood
Paper Mulberry plant is used for making tapacloth. This is what they make clothing with.
Tattooing – Used for decoration – long painful process with a bone chisel and pigment rubbed on incision. Men are heavily tattooed – face, body, bottom, and thighs. Women’s are confined to chin and lips and sometimes ankles and wrists.
Song and Dance – Their dances are associated with war chants that preceded battle. Includes fierce shouting, flexing arm movements, thunderous stomping, big eyes, and sticking out of the tongue.
Musical Instruments – 2 forms of flute (one you play with your mouth and one with your nose) and also a trumpet (shell with a wooden mouthpiece. Used no drums just rhythmic stomping
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