The ‘Hau’ of Research: Mauss Meets Kaupapa Māori

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aut.relation.endpage11
aut.relation.issue1en_NZ
aut.relation.journalJournal of World Philosophiesen_NZ
aut.relation.startpage1
aut.relation.volume2en_NZ
aut.researcherStewart, Georgina
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Gen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-13T23:53:59Z
dc.date.available2019-02-13T23:53:59Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_NZ
dc.date.issued2017en_NZ
dc.description.abstract‘The Gift’ is the English title of a small book first published in French in 1925 by sociologist Marcel Mauss, which catalyzed an ongoing debate linked to a wide range of scholarship. Mauss’s gift theory included the Māori example of the ‘hau of the gift’ which Mauss explained as a spiritual force, seeking to return to its original owner or place of origin. This article brings a critical Māori perspective to Mauss’ notion of the hau of the gift, in an indigenous philosophical response to Eurocentric social science that combines critical discourse analysis (CDA) with Kaupapa Māori theory and principles of research. The paper introduces Mauss’ arguments about gifting, and the role of hau in those arguments, before turning to a close examination of the concept of ‘hau’ as presented in the original Māori letters, the primary data used by Elsdon Best to write his anthropological articles, from which Mauss developed his ideas about hau. These letters, which sparked the whole debate, are material artefacts of the cross-cultural educational relationship between Tamati Ranapiri as teacher, and Elsdon Best as student. Common-sense Māori readings of Ranapiri find no mystery in what he wrote about hau, but reinforce the significance of his correspondence, from the perspective of Kaupapa Māori versions of the history of Māori education.
dc.identifier.citationJournal of World Philosophies, 2(1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/917
dc.identifier.doi10.2979/jourworlphil.2.1.01en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn2474-1795en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/12248
dc.publisherIndiana University
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dc.subjectGift theory; Hau of the gift; Indigenous knowledge; Intercultural hyphen; Kaupapa Māori; Marcel Mauss; Tamati Ranapiri
dc.titleThe ‘Hau’ of Research: Mauss Meets Kaupapa Māorien_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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