indigenous knowledge

The Pacific Research Paradigm: Opportunities and challenges

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
Pacific Island
Pasifika
Oceania
research paradigm
research approaches
indigenous knowledge
Author(s): 
Eseta Tualaulelei
Judy McFall-McCaffery
DOI: 
10.20507/MAIJournal.2019.8.2.7

Around the world, favourable social and political circumstances have encouraged the development of academically non-traditional ways of researching. This article explores the recent proliferation of research approaches from Pacific and Pasifika communities which, in some Australian and New Zealand contexts, are attracting increased interest from policymakers and researchers. We present a socio-historical account of how the Pacific research paradigm emerged and some key contemporary Pacific research approaches within this paradigm.

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He wai! The place of waiata in extrapolating tūrangawaewae

Article type: 
Commentary
Key words: 
Māori music
indigenous knowledge
waiata
tūrangawaewae
pōwhiri
Author(s): 
Valance Smith
DOI: 
10.20507/MAIJournal.2017.6.2.12

How can waiata declare and perpetuate one’s belonging to place, to tūrangawaewae? Waiata are commonly performed at pōwhiri, following, and, in support of whaikōrero. Within this context, place is central to waiata. Its purpose is to complement the whaikōrero, ultimately expressing identity, broaching responsibility for, and the significance of place. Place in the form of tūrangawaewae, a place to stand, a purview of the use of language through waiata, contextualizes cultural identity through song.

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Mātauranga Māori and the data–information–knowledge–wisdom hierarchy: a conversation on interfacing knowledge systems

Key words: 
mātauranga
DIKW pyramid
science
indigenous knowledge
interface
Author(s): 
Ocean Ripeka Mercier
Nathan Stevens
Anaru Toia

This paper explores the interface between mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and a model used to describe knowledge systems known as the Data- Information- Knowledge- Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy. By considering how DIKW describes a non- Western knowledge system, we reveal ways that the DIKW pyramid concept may be expanded. We fi rst explore the practices that mātauranga Māori draws upon to establish relationships between data, information and knowledge, considering particularly how the concept of whakapapa interfaces with the DIKW pyramid model.

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