Open AccessBeing Māori and Pākehā: Methodology and Method in Exploring Cultural Hybridity
Author(s) -
Niki Grennell-Hawke,
Keith Tudor
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2018.2934
Subject(s) - aotearoa , hybridity , indigenous , sociology , subject (documents) , psychology , epistemology , negotiation , social psychology , anthropology , gender studies , social science , ecology , philosophy , library science , computer science , biology
This article addresses the first author’s experience of identifying as both Māori and Pākehā in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on her own research using both kaupapa research theory and heuristic research method, and supervised by the second author, the article describes her negotiation of the experience of being a hybrid cultural subject and object, of belonging and not belonging. The article extends the practice and understanding of cross-cultural research on a number of levels: the intrapsychic (i.e., within the principal investigator herself), the interpersonal (i.e., between the researcher and supervisor), and the methodological (i.e., between an indigenous and a Western theory).