Lending Traditional Māori Artistic Structures to Academic Research and Writing: Mahi-Toi

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aut.publication.placeAichi, Japanen_NZ
aut.relation.conferenceThe IAFOR Conference on Education: Surviving and Thriving in Education in Times of Changeen_NZ
aut.researcherWilson, Jani
dc.contributor.authorWilson, JKTen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-16T22:50:22Z
dc.date.available2018-12-16T22:50:22Z
dc.date.copyright2018-03-06en_NZ
dc.date.issued2018-03-06en_NZ
dc.description.abstractMāori (Indigenous New Zealand) researchers may have one or many mahi-toi (artistic) talents. All mahi-toi are ideas brought from the conceptual world to the physical realm by mahi-ā-ringa (work with hands), and the practitioner is the conduit. When the mahi-toi practitioner is also the researcher and vice-versa, the vernaculars in both circles enrich and give structure, depth and stability to each other. Despite divergences in materials and technologies across the disciplines, when traditional processes - such as carving, weaving, through to performing and composing kapahaka (Māori performing arts) - are placed side-by-side, the parallels between them are unmistakable. Every practice has distinctive pre-production, production and post-production phases that have survived long artistic histories. Setting the mahi-toi practices beside writing and researching lends an artistic, structural, theoretical and analytical framework that may be useful for both researchers (Māori and non-Māori) and mahi-toi practitioners, and particularly for practitioners who make the transition to academic research and writing. As an emerging academic and traditional arts practitioner, I had an epiphany as to why my writing and researching was not to the standard of my artistic practice: I was not translating the fastidiousness, self-editing, self-criticism, and caution taken in my arts into my writing and research. Focusing on poi, this paper explores Mahi-toi as a scaffolding for a theoretical framework and writing structure for Māori scholars - and it is hoped, beyond Māori - in arts disciplines.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationPublished in The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2018 Official Conference Proceedings, The Hawai‘i Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., January 4 - January 6, 2018, pp. 111-124.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/12112
dc.publisherThe International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
dc.relation.urihttps://papers.iafor.org/submission39036/
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dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectMahi-Toien_NZ
dc.subjectResearchen_NZ
dc.subjectProcessen_NZ
dc.titleLending Traditional Māori Artistic Structures to Academic Research and Writing: Mahi-Toien_NZ
dc.typeConference Contribution
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