A Place to Stand: Land and Water in Māori Film

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A Place to Stand: Land and Water in Māori Film

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New Zealand (NZ) Māori identity, as is the case for indigenous peoples the world over, is inextricably linked to a sense of place of origin, Tūrangawaewae, literally, “a place to stand one’s feet.” Place here is obviously first and foremost about land, but also includes the rivers, lakes and sea that have sustained Māori communities since their arrival in Aotearoa, almost a thousand years ago. Linking representations of land and water to a re-reading of Paul Gilroy’s twin metaphors of roots a...

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2016-02-01

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Deborah Walker-Morrison

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Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies

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http://imaginations.csj.ualberta.ca/?p=5221

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