{"id":517,"date":"2016-08-01T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=517"},"modified":"2016-08-01T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T04:06:30","slug":"waitangi-evidence-by-associate-professor-merata-kawharu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/waitangi-evidence-by-associate-professor-merata-kawharu\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitangi Evidence by Associate Professor Merata Kawharu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes wonder what &#8220;value&#8221; academic work may have, particularly with regard to Humanities research.\u00a0 We are lucky to have Associate Professor Merata Kawharu of the University of Otago&#8217;s Research and Enterprise Office as an adjunct Research Professor in Te Tumu.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/te-tumu\/staff\/otago083503.html\" target=\"_blank\">Merata&#8217;s achievements<\/a> that benefit M\u0101ori are many.\u00a0 Her latest work has been working on behalf of her own people, Ng\u0101ti Rahiri and Ng\u0101ti Kawa of the Bay of Islands, preparing evidence on early M\u0101ori-P\u0101keh\u0101 interactions, with particular relevance to land, and presenting it from a cultural and hap\u016b perspective.\u00a0 As she states &#8220;This k\u014drero today serves not to repeat what historians have already covered.\u00a0 Instead, I take a different perspective, centralising arguments from a cultural values and community-centric orientation so that the extent of significant loss can start to be more fully appreciated.&#8221;\u00a0 Click here to read Merata&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2016\/08\/Summary-Brief-of-Evidence.pdf\">Summary Brief of Evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes wonder what &#8220;value&#8221; academic work may have, particularly with regard to Humanities research.\u00a0 We are lucky to have Associate Professor Merata Kawharu of the University of Otago&#8217;s Research and Enterprise Office as an adjunct Research Professor in Te [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8759,47031,17482,1],"tags":[40941,47041,47040,47042],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maori-studies","category-research-outreach","category-treaty-of-waitangi","category-uncategorized","tag-merata-kawharu","tag-ngati-kawa","tag-ngati-rahiri","tag-waitangi-tribunal"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}