lecture 4 - tikanga 2

Question 1

What are the 6 key cultural concepts that make up tikanga māori?

Answer 1

Mana, tapu, noa, utu, mauri, wairua

Question 2

What is mana?

Answer 2

Prestige, authority

Question 3

What are the 4 key types of mana?

Answer 3

Mana tupuna/atua, Mana tuku, Mana whakatupu/whakatipu, mana wahine

Question 4

What is mana tupuna/atua?

Answer 4

Mana inherited, via whakapapa from the atua

Question 5

What is mana tuku?

Answer 5

Mana conferred by someone else in recognition of skills, deeds, qualities

Question 6

What is mana whakatupu?

Answer 6

Mana accumulated through life experience

Question 7

What is mana wahine?

Answer 7

The inherent mana of women

Question 8

What is tapu?

Answer 8

Sacred, special, restricted

Question 9

What are the 2 types of tapu?

Answer 9

Intrinsic & extrinsic

Question 10

What is intrinsic tapu?

Answer 10

Tapu associated with a specific thing that comes from the atua

Question 11

What is extrinsic tapu?

Answer 11

Tapu that can be applied or removed

Question 12

What is noa?

Answer 12

A state free from restrictions - neutral state

Question 13

What are the agents of noa?

Answer 13

Karakia, food, water, women

Question 14

What is the word for ‘to make noa’?

Answer 14

whakanoa

Question 15

What is utu?

Answer 15

Reciprocity, revenge

Question 16

What is mauri?

Answer 16

A life force that binds together the physical and spiritual elements required for them to exist- embedded in living things from their conception

Question 17

When does mauri leave the body?

Answer 17

Upon death

Question 18

What is wairua?

Answer 18

Spirit of body, distinct from body and the mauri.

Question 19

Is mauri or wairua immortal?

Answer 19

wairua

Question 20

When does wairua leave the body?

Answer 20

During sleep, after death travels to the land of ancestors