Open AccessTears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds
Author(s) -
Angela Wanhalla
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0ins26.4845
Subject(s) - tears , sociology , ontology , project commissioning , publishing , management , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law , medicine , economics , surgery
Tears of Rangi is, says Anne Salmond, an exploration of ontology, defined as “the study of the nature of reality, along with the basic categories of being and their relations” (18). For Salmond, relationality structures te ao Māori, as expressed in whakapapa, but also the hau (the wind of life). Practices, such as giftgiving, bore hau and when exchanged entangled people in relationships, creating obligations and responsibilities