dc.contributor.author |
Bywater, Jonathan |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-05-30T20:47:45Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2006 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Afterall 13:101-106 2006 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1465-4253 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/18803 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Standing in the morning sun outside Hoani Waititi marae in Waitakere, in my hometown in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, I am thinking of a BBC news infographic. The trigger is the fIgure of the migratory bird. When visitors are formally welcomed by Maori, indigenous New Zealanders, onto a marae or community meeting place, the fIgure of the migratory bird is invoked across the marae atea, the highly charged space in front of a whare hui, the meeting house. Participating in such a welcome as a visitor, I am interpellated as a bird by the lcaranga, the fIrst call from the host side. The lcaranga, performed by a woman, traditionally a lcuia, a woman elder, is high pitched. Its commencement dissolves the everyday social space of conversation and distraction as the tapping of a glass or a clearing of the throat might at closer quarters and in different circumstances. Across the distance of the open ground in front of the house, it can sound powerfully disembodied, the impersonal voice ofceremony focusing attention and invoking a particular kind of awareness. Alth1~gh I only know a few words of Te Reo Maori, the Maori language, in the tuted, chanted call I recognise the term manuhiri naming me. Usually translate into English simply as 'visitors' , I hear in it the Maori word manu, bird; a word I know fIrst from local |
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dc.publisher |
Central Saint Martins; Central Saint Martins |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Afterall |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Interrupting perpetual flight: a local practice of locational identification |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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pubs.begin-page |
101 |
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pubs.volume |
13 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Central Saint Martins; Central Saint Martins |
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pubs.end-page |
106 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
49854 |
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pubs.org-id |
Creative Arts and Industries |
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pubs.org-id |
Fine Arts |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2010-09-01 |
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