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We should endeavor to give people both because if we do not, they will make their own “discoveries” and conspiracies which is how “woke” individuals are created anyway. In addition to asking for examples, I would love for one of the proponents of the parity of science and mythology to describe what science actually is. My belief is that many people are coming through systems of higher education with an understanding of what science is that is no more than myth, and a Dunning-Kruger level of conviction that they understand science better than those who actually practice it. It is expensive, but it is a lazy way to fake academic credentials.
If more people can learn to see the world as something phenomenal, living, and even maybe holy, a greater respect could be fostered for our home. In Te Reo Maori (the Maori language), the word for photograph is whakaahau. Whaka refers to the word after it as becoming, or being.
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Binney said that it was vital to be connected with a powerful hapu and many well-known ancestors for survival and protection. As Maori communication was almost totally oral until well contact period, oral myth-narratives became more varied to match the needs of each hapu or whanau. I sympathise with the desire to maintain indigenous cultures , but no culture is static. It is important to keep continuity with the past but indigenous cultures will never be able to return to their pre-contact state. When I visit NZ, I find it very different from what my older Kiwi friends used to tell me.
What is the Māori way of life?
Life in Māori villages revolved around acquiring food for the community, whether by growing crops, hunting or gathering. The arrival of Europeans – explorers, whalers, missionaries and, later, settlers – led to enormous changes in how Māori lived and worked.
Holding on to their differences, certain new animisms conceived by new materialisms may meet in some ways with Maori world views, which could offer potential new ways for understanding Western constructs.
Items is a place for engagement with insights from both the Council’s work and the social sciences. Marques B., Grabasch G., McIntosh J. Fostering Landscape Identity through Participatory Design with Indigenous Cultures of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The essential elements that are part of the practice of rongoa.
Traditional Healing Beliefs And Values Can Be Adapted Into Therapeutic Cultural Environments To Improve Health And Well-being
All it proves is the veracity of Moliere’s point that there is no fool like an educated fool. Another observation: Professor Cooper, one of the ‘Magnificent 7’ signatories, I believe, has a Maori heritage. No doubt in the minds of the Royal Society Star Chamber, while by definition he can’t quite be racist, he is manifesting deeply worrying false consciousness. I sincerely hope the Royal Society comes to its senses and shows just an iota of intellectual respect towards its signatory members.