lecture 25 - Māori identity

Question 1

What are the 2 groups described by Benedict Anderson’s Theory of groups?

Answer 1

Imagined groups (vague collective identity), Actual groups (permanent or regular assemblies)

Question 2

Are the Māori people a imagined or actual group, and what are they often percevied as?

Answer 2

Often harmfully stereotyped as an actual group, but are actually an imaginary group made up of actual groups of hapu and whanau