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SUMMARY:Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand - Michael Stevens (Univer
 sity of Otago)
DTSTART:20080602T120000Z
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CONTACT:Salim Al-Gailani
DESCRIPTION:Michael Stevens (University of Otago\, New Zealand) belongs to
  Kai Tahu whanui\, the iwi (Maori tribe) whose traditional tribal area cov
 ers the majority of New Zealand’s South Island.  Michael is a participan
 t in the annual customary harvesting of titi (sooty shearwaters/muttonbird
 s) from islands adjacent to Rakiura (Stewart Island) in Foveaux Strait.  T
 he right to harvest titi\, or\, in local parlance\, to go muttonbirding\, 
 is an exclusive one inherited genealogically. In this paper\, Michael uses
  the titi harvest to illustrate changes in Kai Tahu knowledge and ways of 
 life since (and as a result of) European contact in the late eighteenth ce
 ntury. Looking at colonial-era commentaries on the harvest\, he argues tha
 t the persistence of the titi harvest a pre-contact custom—and traditiona
 l knowledge associated with it\, is not evidence of Kai Tahu rejection of 
 modernity\, but rather\, a crucial thread in its own conception of moderni
 ty.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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