The ancestors speak: Kōiwi Tangata, Mātauranga Māori and the development of biological anthropology in New Zealand · Southeast Asian Archaeology Bibliographic Database

Ref ID:	22439
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Ruckstuhl, Katharina Tayles, Nancy Buckley, Hallie R. Bradley, Richard Fyfe, Roger Ellison, Matapura
Title:	The ancestors speak: Kōiwi Tangata, Mātauranga Māori and the development of biological anthropology in New Zealand
Date:	2015
Source:	The Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
Place of Publication:	Oxon, UK New York
Publisher:	Routledge
Abstract:	The study of kōiwi tangata (human skeletal remains) has a long a history in New Zealand. For Māori they are the physical embodiment of tūpuna (ancestors) and in most cases if found in the course of archaeological investigation or by accident are left in peace. This was not the case in the past, where biological anthropologists viewed kōiwi tangata as a source of scientific information with little need to consider connections to their living descendants. Based on this history there has been an uneasy relationship between Māori and ‘science’.
Date Created:	2/22/2016
Editors:	Oxenham, Marc Buckley, Hallie R.
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