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100			_aKainamu, Reena _911762
245			_aSay our beautiful names : _cReena Kainamu _ba Māori indigene's autoethnography of women-self-mother
246			_aA thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy of Māori and Pacific Health at the University of Auckland,
260			_c2013 _a
300			_aelectronic document (301 pages) ; PDF file
500			_aPhD (Māori and Pacific Health) thesis, University of Auckland
520			_aThis thesis commenced as a study of cultural identity and connectedness and the associations with women’s and mothers’ mental health and wellbeing. I had gathered whānau stories of my and our experiences of being women, mothers and family. Among the whānau narratives were gaps about who we were as a humble people, disconnected from our past, reflecting an historical silence. Indigenous autoethnography emerged as an academic methodology to broker the gaps and silences in understanding the collective of us whānau women through the generations and across a colonised landscape. Autoethnography is a perfomance methodology and I triangulated this with the narratives of women participants, twenty in all and, grounded the research processes with a kaupapa Māori approach. Kaupapa Māori signals the intersections with whiteness and hegemony and at these points of convergence are cultural signposts, calling to us to heed ancestral values and the indigenous spirit of where we came from in illuminating the way ahead. The women’s narratives tendered complexities and layers, fresh and uncluttered stories of transitions and transformations through hardships, leadership, tenacity and courage. The main research findings evidenced a group of us, women and whānau, locked in transgenerational trauma, abuse and disadvantage; in the place of cultural values and cultural knowledge lurked multiple forms of violence and subjugation. Even when women emerged from the margins, for the next generation, the margins were familiar places. When women were honoured by their families, they grew in self-assurrance, assumed leadership in whānau and steered their families towards meaningful and full existences. Although the research implications are not prescriptive, the research gives deeper understandings of the multiplicites of women’s and mothers’ lived experiences and, the need for health and social intiatives to develop innovative partnerships with whānau. Women are drawn to systems and processes that honour them, calling out their status as integral members of society and creation itself; women are creation. (Author's abstract). #8080
650			_aCULTURE _9179
650		4	_aHISTORY _9293
650		4	_aIDENTITY _911758
650		0	_aINTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA _97825
650		4	_aKŌRERO NEHE _98268
650		4	_aMĀMĀ _95689
650		0	_aMANA WAHINE _97651
650			_aMĀORI _9357
650			_aMOTHERS _9392
650		0	_aPĀMAMAE HEKE IHO _96928
650			_aRANGAHAU MĀORI _95532
650			_aTHESES _9606
650			_aTUAKIRI _99904
650			_aTUHINGA WHAKAPAE _95598
650			_aWHĀNAU _9642
650			_aWOMEN _9645
651		4	_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
856			_uhttp://hdl.handle.net/2292/21753
942			_2ddc _cTHESIS _hkmthesis23