‘Sitting in the fire’, an indigenous approach to masculinity and male violence: Māori men working with Māori men

Mataira, Peter

‘Sitting in the fire’, an indigenous approach to masculinity and male violence: Māori men working with Māori men Peter Mataira - Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Worker, 2008 - Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work .

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


AUKATI TŪKINOTANGA
ENGAGING MEN AND BOYS IN VIOLENCE PREVENTION
MĀORI
MASCULINITY
MEN
PRIMARY PREVENTION
RANGAHAU MĀORI
TĀNE


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