‘Sitting in the fire’, an indigenous approach to masculinity and male violence: Māori men working with Māori men Peter Mataira
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ArticleSeries: Aotearoa New Zealand Social WorkPublication details: Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Worker, 2008Subject(s): Online resources:
In: Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2008, 20(4): 35-40Summary: There were these three sexes, because the sun, the moon and the earth are three: and man was originally the child of the sun, the woman of the earth, and the man-woman of the moon … He cut them in two and bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself … Each of us when separated is but the indenture of man and he is always looking for his other half … Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love (Plato Symposium. Aristophane’s Speech, The Double Nature of Man, 16-18). (Author's abstract). Record #8405
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Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2008, 20(4): 35-40
There were these three sexes, because the sun, the moon and the earth are three: and man was originally the child of the sun, the woman of the earth, and the man-woman of the moon … He cut them in two and bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself … Each of us when separated is but the indenture of man and he is always looking for his other half … Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love (Plato Symposium. Aristophane’s Speech, The Double Nature of Man, 16-18). (Author's abstract). Record #8405