Journal
ALTERNATIVE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 122-131Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/11771801221084883
Keywords
culture; identity; national commemoration days; wairua
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- Marsden Fund Council [MAU019]
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The research used the A Wairua Approach to explore the experiences of two participants on Anzac Day, analyzing the meanings and connections related to genealogy and the mana of the 28th (Maori) Battalion, and discussing the participants' responses to Anzac Day and the meanings it held for them.
Although research acknowledges wairua (spirituality) as a key component of Maori understandings, experience and practice, few studies include wairua as an explicit analytical theme or domain. Utilising the A Wairua Approach to research, we explore the experiences of two participants on Anzac Day. Through A Wairua Approach analysis of video recordings, we explored the meanings and connections related to whakapapa (genealogy) and the mana (prestige, status) of the 28th (Maori) Battalion. We also explored the promises made and broken and what participants saw as tikanga (method, formality) in their responses to Anzac Day and the meanings it held for them. Through expression of emotions, the participants recalled past events and actively engaged in making connections between present and past grief and injustices. Although national days may unite people, they are not necessarily felt in the same ways in different contexts. For these participants, being Maori shaped their experiences and the forms that connection took.
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