Rangatira
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The concept of a Script error: No such module "Lang". is central to Script error: No such module "Lang".—a Māori system of governance, self-determination and sovereignty.[3]
Etymology
The word Script error: No such module "Lang". means "chief (male or female), wellborn, noble" and derives from Proto-Central Eastern Polynesian *langatila ("chief of secondary status").[4] Cognate words are found in Moriori, Tahitian (i.e. the raʻatira in the name Tāvini Huiraʻatira), Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, Marquesan and Hawaiian.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Interpretations
Three interpretations of rangatira consider it as a compound of the Māori words "ranga" and "tira". In the first case, "ranga" is devised as a sandbar and the "tira" a shark fin. The allegoric sandbar helps reduce erosion of the dune (or people). The fin reflects both the appearance of the sandbar, and, more importantly, "its physical and intentional dominance as guardian".[5]Template:Rp Rangatira reinforce communities, cease to exist without them ("for what is a sandbar without sand?"), and have a protective capacity.[5]Template:Rp
Ethnographer John White (1826-1891) gave a different viewpoint in one of his lectures on Māori customs.[6] He said Māori had traditionally formed two kahui who came together to discuss history or whakapapa.
- "Each chief in the kahui had his place assigned to him, according to the amount of knowledge he possessed; and this place was given to him by the leader of the kahui of which he was a member. This act of the leader was called ranga, or putting in order. The people, as they came to the temple in a body, were called tira, or company; and as the leader had to assign, or ranga, a place to each of his tira, he was called the rangatira, from which we derive our word in Maori for chief, rangatira."[6]
This interpretation fits well with a second translation where "ranga" is an abbreviation of rāranga (or weaving) and "tira" signifies a group.[5]Template:Rp
A third interpretation fits equally well with this translation, interlinking concepts related to the identity of the ‘tira’. In the first instance, the conditional hospitality[7][8][9] presented in the form of weaving created for the ‘tira’ of guests. In the second instance, the collective intentionality[10][11] "enacted in the weaving" of the ‘tira’ of hosts.[5]Template:Rp Together, these concepts highlight the value attached to the "personal relationship" between the leader and their group.[5]Template:Rp This type of relationship is similar to the mahara atawhai (endearment or "benevolent concern") offered in the Treaty of Waitangi’s preamble by Queen Victoria, reflecting the pre-nineteenth century "personal bond between the ruler and subject".[12]Template:Rp
References
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- ↑ a b White, J. (1826–1891). An epitome of official documents relative to Native affairs and land purchases in the North Island of New Zealand. Lectures on Maori Customs, &c., by Mr. John White, Part 11. NZETC, retrieved 13 November 2001.
- ↑ Derrida, J. (2000). Of hospitality (R. Bowlby, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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- ↑ Searle. J. R. (1990). Collective intentions and actions. In P. R. Cohen, J. Morgan, & M. E. Pollack (Eds.), Intentions in communication (pp. 401–416). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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- ↑ McHugh, P. G. (1991). The lawyer’s concept of sovereignty, the Treaty of Waitangi, and a legal history for New Zealand. In W. Renwick (Ed.), Sovereignty & indigenous rights: The Treaty of Waitangi in international contexts (pp. 170–189). Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press.
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