Contemporary Maori Cultural Practice--from Biculturalism Towards a Glocal Culture. - JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature

Contemporary Maori Cultural Practice--from Biculturalism Towards a Glocal Culture.

By JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature

  • Release Date: 2000-01-01
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

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In an article written for the New Zealand Herald entitled 'Cyberiwi are putting their culture online,' Peter Sinclair (2000) 'looks at what e-Maori has to offer.' Statistics, he hopes, predict the truth in announcing that by Sinclair's hope is partly founded on his discovering 'the extraordinary richness of the Maori contribution to the web, and [...] the impact of a global medium on a tribal culture.' As he says: 'the cyber-iwi are doing just fine in cyberspace.' Adam Gifford, complementing Simpson's article in the same issue of the Herald, quotes Ross Himona who had established a website a few years ago containing lists of whakapapa and who maintains that '[w]e no longer live in our iwi, but we are international.'

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