We Live With Sacredness and Danger: Ngāti Rangi Maori and Mt. Ruapehu as Wāhi Tapu
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Tu, Yi-Ning
Abstract
This article is abou how Ngāti Rangi Maori have interations with Mt. Ruapehu, which is their wāhi tapu, in different historical contexts. By interactions, the cultural meaning of wāhi tapu connects the ancestral past and group’s identity in the present. When actors, such as scientists, government and ski company, brought different ways to understand landscape and wished to conduct volcanic hazard management, the way Ngāti Rangi Maori regard Mt. Ruapehu as their group identity became more and more clear. This understanding has become Ngāti Rangi Maori’s practice as well as discourse to negotiate with the others and to claim their rights for environmental management.
This thesis discusses different ways of interactions between Ngāti Rangi people and Mt. Ruapehu, and how Ngāti Rangi people understand landscape. I argue that tapu is the core value of how they understand landscape. Different interactions between people and the mountain are related to the knowledge of tapu, and this knowledge has been keeping while changing through times.
Subjects
Maori
human and environment
SDGs
Type
thesis
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