TY  - BOOK
AU  - Payne, Matiu
TI  - Nā te kōti i tatari : : the inconsistent treatment of tikanga taurima (whāngai) in Ngāti Mutunga (1820 – 2019)
PY  - 2019///
CY  -  
KW  - ADOPTION
KW  - Adoption Act 1955
KW  - COLONISATION
KW  - FAMILY LAW
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - KŌRERO NEHE
KW  - MĀORI
KW  - NGĀTI MUTUNGA
KW  - ORA
KW  - RANGAHAU MĀORI
KW  - TAIPŪWHENUATANGA
KW  - THESES
KW  - TIKANGA TUKU IHO
KW  - TUHINGA WHAKAPAE
KW  - TURE WHĀNAU
KW  - WELLBEING
KW  - WHĀNGAI
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - PhD thesis, University of Otago
N2  - This thesis argues that taurima (customary kin adoptive relationships) have been inconsistently treated in Ngāti Mutunga iwi (tribe) since 1820, and disproportionately so since the advent of the Native Land Court in 1862. These inconsistencies include customary observances by Ngāti Mutunga, external legislative influences, public resourcing, and social impacts that affect adults and children involved in taurima relationships.

Previously uncollated case studies of Ngāti Mutunga rangatira who died between 1885 and 1901 (Naera Pōmare, Apitia Punga and Hāmuera Koteriki), demonstrate how for Ngāti Mutunga legislation and public agency impacted their own personal taurima relationships (as taurima children themselves and also as fathers of taurima children) in the nineteenth century.

Subsequently, internalised effects on Ngāti Mutunga taurima relationships have been perpetuated into contemporary Ngāti Mutunga thinking evidenced by lived experiences of Ngāti Mutunga people interviewed for this study.

The research concludes that enduring social impacts exist for taurima children in the twenty first century endorsing an inequitable experience for the children, and families who engage the taurima custom. These inconsistencies also serve to distance the tikanga (custom) from its Polynesian roots as a socially enhancing custom.

Taurima is the dialectal preference for the whāngai custom amongst Ngāti Mutunga. (Author's abstract). Record #8082
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10523/9903
ER  -