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'''Ngahuia Te Awekotuku''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=85%}} (born 1949) is a New Zealand academic specialising in [[Māori culture|Māori cultural issues]] and a [[LGBT social movements|lesbian activist]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/lesbian-lives/page-5|title=5. – Lesbian lives – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand|first=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu|last=Taonga|website=Teara.govt.nz|accessdate=25 February 2017}}</ref>
'''Ngahuia Te Awekotuku''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (born 1949) is a New Zealand academic specialising in [[Māori culture|Māori cultural issues]] and a [[LGBT social movements|lesbian activist]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/lesbian-lives/page-5|title=5. – Lesbian lives – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand|first=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu|last=Taonga|website=Teara.govt.nz|access-date=25 February 2017|archive-date=14 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214104510/http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/lesbian-lives/page-5|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1972, she was famously denied a visa to visit the United States on the basis of her sexuality.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Te Awekotuku is descended from [[Te Arawa]], [[Tūhoe]] and [[Waikato]] [[iwi]].<ref name="waikato">{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607010312/http://www.waikato.ac.nz/smpd/about/staff/ngahuia|title=Ngahuia Te Awekotuku - Māori &amp; Pacific Development : University of Waikato|website=web.archive.org|accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref>
Te Awekotuku is descended from [[Te Arawa]], [[Tūhoe]] and [[Waikato]] [[iwi]] (tribe).<ref name="waikato">{{cite web|url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/smpd/about/staff/ngahuia|title=Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Māori & Pacific Development : University of Waikato|access-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607010312/http://www.waikato.ac.nz/smpd/about/staff/ngahuia|archive-date=7 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=King |first1=Michael |title=Penguin History of New Zealand |date=5 August 2023 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0143018674 |page=460}}</ref>


As a student she was a member of [[Ngā Tamatoa]] at the [[University of Auckland]], .<ref name="bc"/> Her [[Master of Arts]] thesis was on [[Janet Frame]]<ref name="bc">{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126013223/http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Te-Awekotuku,-Ngahuia.htm|author=Samdog Design Ltd|website=web.archive.org|title=New Zealand Book Council|accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref> and her [[PhD]] on the effects of tourism on the [[Te Arawa]] people.<ref name="bc"/><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/7389|title=The sociocultural impact of tourism on the Te Arawa people of Rotorua, New Zealand|first=Te Awekotuku,|last=Ngahuia|date=1 January 1981|website=Researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz|accessdate=25 February 2017}}</ref>
As a student, she was a member of the activist group [[Ngā Tamatoa]] at the [[University of Auckland]].<ref name="bc"/> Her [[Master of Arts]] thesis was on [[Janet Frame]]<ref name="bc">{{cite web|url=http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Te-Awekotuku,-Ngahuia.htm|author=Samdog Design Ltd|title=New Zealand Book Council|access-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126013223/http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Te-Awekotuku,-Ngahuia.htm|archive-date=26 November 2012}}</ref> and her [[PhD]] on the effects of tourism on the [[Te Arawa]] people.<ref name="bc"/><ref>{{cite thesis|url=http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/7389|title=The sociocultural impact of tourism on the Te Arawa people of Rotorua, New Zealand|first=Te Awekotuku|last=Ngahuia|date=1 January 1981|website=Researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz|access-date=25 February 2017|publisher=University of Waikato|type=Thesis|archive-date=19 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419114919/http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/7389|url-status=live}}</ref>


Te Awekotuku has worked across the heritage, culture and academic sectors as a curator, lecturer, researcher and activist. Her areas of research interest include gender issues, museums, body modification, power and powerlessness, spirituality and ritual.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku|url=http://www.maramatanga.ac.nz/person/professor-ngahuia-te-awekotuku|website=Nga Pae O Te Maramatanga|accessdate=25 December 2015}}</ref> She has been curator of [[ethnology]] at the [[Waikato Museum]]; lecturer in [[art history]] at [[Auckland University]],<ref name="bc"/> and professor of [[Maori studies]] at [[Victoria University of Wellington]].<ref name="bc"/> She was Professor of Research and Development at [[Waikato University]].<ref name="waikato"/> She and [[Marilyn Waring]] contributed the piece "Foreigners in our own land" to the 1984 anthology ''[[Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology]]'', edited by [[Robin Morgan]].<ref name="global">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.vsc.edu/lscfind/Record/154795/TOC#tabnav |title=Table of Contents: Sisterhood is global : |publisher=Catalog.vsc.edu |date= |accessdate=15 October 2015}}</ref> Although now retired, she continues to write.
Te Awekotuku has worked across the heritage, culture and academic sectors as a curator, lecturer, researcher and activist. Her areas of research interest include gender issues, museums, body modification, power and powerlessness, spirituality and ritual.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku|url=http://www.maramatanga.ac.nz/person/professor-ngahuia-te-awekotuku|website=Nga Pae O Te Maramatanga|access-date=25 December 2015|archive-date=25 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225092231/http://www.maramatanga.ac.nz/person/professor-ngahuia-te-awekotuku|url-status=live}}</ref> She has been curator of [[ethnology]] at the [[Waikato Museum]]; lecturer in [[art history]] at [[Auckland University]],<ref name="bc"/> and professor of [[Maori studies|Māori studies]] at [[Victoria University of Wellington]].<ref name="bc"/> She was Professor of Research and Development at [[Waikato University]].<ref name="waikato"/> She and [[Marilyn Waring]] contributed the piece "Foreigners in our own land" to the 1984 anthology ''[[Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology]]'', edited by [[Robin Morgan]].<ref name="global">{{cite web |url=https://catalog.vsc.edu/lscfind/Record/154795/TOC#tabnav |title=Table of Contents: Sisterhood is global |publisher=Catalog.vsc.edu |access-date=15 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208065459/https://catalog.vsc.edu/lscfind/Record/154795/TOC#tabnav |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Although now retired, she continues to write and mentor students. Notable students include [[Mere Whaanga]] and [[Ngarino Ellis]].<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Whaanga |first=Mere Joslyn |date=2012 |title=Rata, the Effect of Māori Land Law on Ahikāroa |url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/8139 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215223154/https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/8139 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |access-date=11 December 2018 |publisher=The University of Waikato: Te Whare Wananga o Waikato |type=PhD thesis |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=A Whakapapa of Tradition : Iwirakau Carving 1830 to 1930 |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111963382 |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland |date=2012-01-01 |first=Ngarino |last=Ellis |access-date=22 January 2024 |archive-date=31 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131203553/https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111963382 |url-status=live}}</ref>


==Visitor's permit denial==
In the [[2010 New Year Honours (New Zealand)|2010 New Year Honours]], Te Awekotuku was appointed a [[New Zealand Order of Merit|Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit]] for services to Māori culture.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2010 | title=New Year honours list 2010|date=31 December 2009| publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | accessdate=5 January 2018}}</ref> In 2017, she won a Auckland Museum Medal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/your-museum/get-involved/museum-medals|title=Museum Medals|last=|first=|date=|website=aucklandmuseum.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
In 1972, Te Awekotuku was denied a visitor's permit to the United States on the grounds that she was a homosexual. Publicity around the incident was a catalyst in the formation of [[gay liberation]] groups in [[New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/homosexual-law-reform/birth-of-the-gay-movement |title=Birth of the gay movement – Homosexual law reform &#124; NZHistory, New Zealand history online |website=Nzhistory.net.nz |access-date=25 February 2017 |archive-date=15 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015134015/http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/homosexual-law-reform/birth-of-the-gay-movement |url-status=live }}</ref> This may have been related to a TV interview she gave in 1971, in which she described herself as a '[[Sapphism|sapphic]] woman'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gaynz.net.nz/history/Part1.html|title=A Chronology of Homosexuality in New Zealand – Part 1 – Queer History New Zealand|access-date=6 June 2014|archive-date=27 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727012352/http://gaynz.net.nz/history/Part1.html|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Research into tā moko==
==Research==
Te Awekotuku has researched and written extensively on the traditional and contemporary practices of [[tā moko]] in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her 2007 (re-published in 2011) book ''Mau Moko: the world of Maori tattoo'', co-authored with Linda Waimarie Nikora, was the product of a five-year long research project conducted by the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at Waikato University, funded by a Marsden Fund grant.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mau Moko - The World of Māori tattoo|url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news/archive.shtml?article=654|website=Waikato University|accessdate=25 December 2015|date=5 December 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Tahana|first1=Yvonne|title=Mau Moko - The World of Māori tattoo|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10821653|website=NZ Herald|accessdate=25 December 2015|date=24 July 2014}}</ref>


==={{lang|mi|Tā moko}}===
Te Awekotuku took a moko kauae (facial moko) to mark the death of [[Te Atairangikaahu|Te Arikinui Dame te Atairangikaahu]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Te Awekotuku|first1=Ngahuia|title=The rise of the Maori tribal tattoo|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19628418|website=BBC.com|accessdate=25 December 2015|date=21 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Higgins|first1=Rawinia|title=Tā moko – Māori tattooing - Contemporary moko|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/ta-moko-maori-tattooing/page-5|website=Te Ara - Encyclopedia of New Zealand|accessdate=25 December 2015}}</ref>
Te Awekotuku has researched and written extensively on the traditional and contemporary practices of {{lang|mi|[[tā moko]]}} (tattoo) in New Zealand. Her 2007 (re-published in 2011) book ''Mau Moko: the world of Maori tattoo'', co-authored with Linda Waimarie Nikora, was the product of a five-year long research project conducted by the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at the [[University of Waikato]], funded by a [[Marsden grant|Marsden Fund grant]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Mau Moko – The World of Māori tattoo |url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news/archive.shtml?article=654 |publisher=[[University of Waikato]] |access-date=25 December 2015 |date=5 December 2007 |archive-date=25 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225085620/http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news/archive.shtml?article=654 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Tahana |first1=Yvonne |title=Mau Moko – The World of Māori tattoo |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10821653 |newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=25 December 2015 |date=24 July 2014 |archive-date=25 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225155845/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10821653 |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Research into the Māori way of death==
===Death practices in Māori culture===
In 2009, Te Awekotuku and Linda Waimarie Nikora received a $950,000 [[Marsden Fund]] grant as lead researchers in the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at Waikato University for the research project ''Apakura: the Maori way of death''. A further $250,000 was received from the [[Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga]] National Institute of Research Excellence to explore past and present practices around [[tangihanga]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Prestigious grant for Waikato Uni research into the Maori way of death|url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news/archive.shtml?article=1114|website=Waikato University|access-date=25 December 2015|date=8 October 2009|archive-date=25 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225164802/http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news/archive.shtml?article=1114|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Recognition==
In 2009 Te Awekotuku and Linda Waimarie Nikora received a $950,000 Marsden Fund grant as lead researchers in the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at Waikato University for the research project 'Apakura: the Maori way of death'. A further $250,000 was received from the Nga Pae o te Maramatanga National Institute of Research Excellence to explore past and present practices around [[tangihanga]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Prestigious grant for Waikato Uni research into the Maori way of death|url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news/archive.shtml?article=1114|website=Waikato University|accessdate=25 December 2015|date=8 October 2009}}</ref>
In the [[2010 New Year Honours (New Zealand)|2010 New Year Honours]], Te Awekotuku was appointed a [[New Zealand Order of Merit|Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit]] for services to Māori culture.<ref>{{cite web|date=31 December 2009|title=New Year honours list 2010|url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2010|access-date=5 January 2018|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|archive-date=4 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104192639/https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2010|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, she won an [[Auckland War Memorial Museum|Auckland Museum]] Medal.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Museum Medals|url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/your-museum/get-involved/museum-medals|website=aucklandmuseum.com|access-date=17 April 2019|archive-date=17 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417212309/http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/your-museum/get-involved/museum-medals|url-status=live}}</ref> Also in 2017, Te Awekotuku was selected as one of the [[Royal Society Te Apārangi|Royal Society Te Apārangi's]] "[[150 women in 150 words]]", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ngahuia te Awekotuku|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/ngahuia-te-awekotuku/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi|archive-date=11 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511040726/https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/ngahuia-te-awekotuku/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Visitors permit denial ==

In 1972, Te Awekotuku was denied a visitors permit to the USA on the grounds that she was a homosexual. Publicity around the incident was a catalyst in the formation of [[Gay Liberation]] groups in [[New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/homosexual-law-reform/birth-of-the-gay-movement |title=Birth of the gay movement - Homosexual law reform &#124; NZHistory, New Zealand history online |website=Nzhistory.net.nz |date= |accessdate=25 February 2017}}</ref> This may have been related to a TV interview she gave in 1971, in which she described herself as a 'sapphic woman'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gaynz.net.nz/history/Part1.html|title=A Chronology of Homosexuality in New Zealand - Part 1 - Queer History New Zealand|publisher=}}</ref>


==Selected publications==
==Selected publications==

* He tikanga whakaaro: Research ethics in the Maori community: A discussion paper [[Ministry of Māori Affairs]]
* He tikanga whakaaro: Research ethics in the Maori community: A discussion paper [[Ministry of Māori Affairs]]


===On art and artists===
===On art and artists===
*''We will become ill if we stop weaving.'' From Mana Whina Maori Selected writings on Maori Women's art, culture and politics. Republished in ATE Journal of Māori Art, 2020, vol 2 pp. 90—103.

*''E ngaa uri whakatupu - weaving legacies : Dame Rangimarie Hetet and Diggeress Te Kanawa'', Hamilton: Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, 2015. {{ISBN|9780473326036}}
*''E ngaa uri whakatupu weaving legacies : Dame Rangimarie Hetet and Diggeress Te Kanawa'', Hamilton: Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, 2015. {{ISBN|9780473326036}}
*'Traditions endure : Five Maori Painters at Auckland Art Gallery', ''Art New Zealand'', Winter 2014, no. 150, pp.&nbsp;58–61.
*'Traditions endure : Five Maori Painters at Auckland Art Gallery', ''Art New Zealand'', Winter 2014, no. 150, pp.&nbsp;58–61.
*'A glorious tradition', ''Art New Zealand'', Winter 2003, no.103.
*'A glorious tradition', ''Art New Zealand'', Winter 2003, no.103.
*Unveiling our hidden treasures : the Seventh Pacific Festival of Arts 1996;', ''Art New Zealand'', Summer 1996/1997, no. 81, pp.&nbsp;42–45,84.
*Unveiling our hidden treasures : the Seventh Pacific Festival of Arts 1996;', ''Art New Zealand'', Summer 1996/1997, no. 81, pp.&nbsp;42–45,84.
*'Forgiving, but never forgetting : Shared Visions at the Auckland City Art Gallery', ''Art New Zealand'', Winter 1996, no. 79, pp.&nbsp;74–77.
*'Forgiving, but never forgetting : Shared Visions at the Auckland City Art Gallery', ''Art New Zealand'', Winter 1996, no. 79, pp.&nbsp;74–77.
* 'He Take Ano: Another Take - Conversations with Lisa Reihana', ''Art New Zealand'', Spring 1993, no. 68, pp.&nbsp;84–87
* 'He Take Ano: Another Take Conversations with Lisa Reihana', ''Art New Zealand'', Spring 1993, no. 68, pp.&nbsp;84–87
* 'Kura Te Waru Rewiri', ''Art New Zealand'', Spring 1993, no. 68, pp.&nbsp;91–93
* 'Kura Te Waru Rewiri', ''Art New Zealand'', Spring 1993, no. 68, pp.&nbsp;91–93
* ''Mana wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's art, culture and politics''Auckland: New Woman Press, 1991. {{ISBN|0908652631}}
* ''Mana wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's art, culture and politics,'' Auckland: New Women's Press, 1991. {{ISBN|0908652631}}
*'Art and the spirit', ''New Zealand Geographic'', Jan/Mar 1990, no. 5, pp.&nbsp;93–97.
*'Art and the spirit', ''New Zealand Geographic'', Jan/Mar 1990, no. 5, pp.&nbsp;93–97.
*'Mats of the Pacific', ''Art New Zealand'', Spring 1989, no. 52, pp..88-90
*'Mats of the Pacific', ''Art New Zealand'', Spring 1989, no. 52, pp..88–90
*'Te whakahoutanga o Te Winika (The restoration of Te Winika)', ''New Zealand Listener'', 28 November 1987, p.&nbsp;67.
*'Te whakahoutanga o Te Winika (The restoration of Te Winika)', ''New Zealand Listener'', 28 November 1987, p.&nbsp;67.
*'Ngahuia Te Awekotuku in conversation with Elizabeth Eastmond and Priscilla Pitts’, ''Antic'', no. 1, 1986.
*'Ngahuia Te Awekotuku in conversation with Elizabeth Eastmond and Priscilla Pitts’, ''Antic'', no. 1, 1986.


===On tā moko===
===On {{lang|mi|tā moko}}===

* 'Tā Moko: Māori Tattoo', in ''Goldie'', (1997) exhibition catalogue, Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery and David Bateman, pp.&nbsp;108–114.
* 'Tā Moko: Māori Tattoo', in ''Goldie'', (1997) exhibition catalogue, Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery and David Bateman, pp.&nbsp;108–114.
* 'More than Skin Deep', in Barkan, E. and Bush, R. (eds.), ''Claiming the Stone: Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity'' (2002) Los Angeles: Getty Press, pp.&nbsp;243–254.
* 'More than Skin Deep', in Barkan, E. and Bush, R. (eds.), ''Claiming the Stone: Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity'' (2002) Los Angeles: Getty Press, pp.&nbsp;243–254.
*[http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/869/NMGPS_2002_TeAwekotuku.pdf?sequence=1 Ta Moko: Culture, body modification, and the psychology of identity], paper given at the Proceedings of the National Māori Graduates of Psychology Symposium 2002.
*[http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/869/NMGPS_2002_TeAwekotuku.pdf?sequence=1 Ta Moko: Culture, body modification, and the psychology of identity], paper given at the Proceedings of the National Māori Graduates of Psychology Symposium 2002.
* Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua, [http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/463/c?sequence=1In your face: wearing Moko – Maori facial marking in today’s world], paper given at Tatau/Tattoo: Embodied art and cultural exchange conference, Victoria University of Wellington, 21–22 August 2003.
* Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua, [http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/463/c?sequence=1In your face: wearing Moko – Maori facial marking in today’s world]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, paper given at Tatau/Tattoo: Embodied art and cultural exchange conference, Victoria University of Wellington, 21–22 August 2003.
* Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua and Rolinda Karapu, ''Mau moko : the world of Māori tattoo'', Auckland: Penguin Books, 2011. {{ISBN|9780143566854}}
* Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua and Rolinda Karapu, ''Mau moko : the world of Māori tattoo'', Auckland: Penguin Books, 2011. {{ISBN|9780143566854}}


===On death in Maori culture===
===On death practices in Māori culture===
*Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Linda Waimarie Nikora, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, 'Manaakitanga: Ethical research with Māori who are dying', in M. Agee, T. McIntosh, P. Culbertson, & C. Makasiale (eds.), ''Pacific Identities and Well-Being - Cross Cultural Perspectives'', London: Routledge, 2003, pp.&nbsp;188–203.
*Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Linda Waimarie Nikora, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, 'Manaakitanga: Ethical research with Māori who are dying', in M. Agee, T. McIntosh, P. Culbertson, & C. Makasiale (eds.), ''Pacific Identities and Well-Being Cross Cultural Perspectives'', London: Routledge, 2003, pp.&nbsp;188–203.
* Vincent Malcolm-Buchanan, Lina Waimarie Nikora and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, [http://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/content/cloaked-life-and-death-korowai-kaitiaki-and-tangihanga Cloaked in Life and Death: Korowai, kaitiaki and tangihanga], MAI Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012.
* Vincent Malcolm-Buchanan, Lina Waimarie Nikora and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, [http://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/content/cloaked-life-and-death-korowai-kaitiaki-and-tangihanga Cloaked in Life and Death: Korowai, kaitiaki and tangihanga], MAI Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012.
* Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Linda Waimarie Nikora, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, 'End-of-life care and Māori whānau resilience', MAI Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp.&nbsp;140–152.
* Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Linda Waimarie Nikora, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, 'End-of-life care and Māori whānau resilience', MAI Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp.&nbsp;140–152.

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*[http://www.maramatanga.ac.nz/person/professor-ngahuia-te-awekotuku Interview with Ngahuia Te Awekotuku], 'Nine to Noon programme, [[RNZ National]], 25 June 2013
*[http://www.maramatanga.ac.nz/person/professor-ngahuia-te-awekotuku Interview with Ngahuia Te Awekotuku], 'Nine to Noon programme, [[RNZ National]], 25 June 2013
*[https://vimeo.com/101482306 Ngahuia Te Awekotuku: Sustaining the art of moko] presentation for the [[Royal Society of New Zealand]], June 2014
*[https://vimeo.com/101482306 Ngahuia Te Awekotuku: Sustaining the art of moko] presentation for the [[Royal Society of New Zealand]], June 2014
* ''Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia.'' [[Routledge]] International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, 2012 page 553.
* ''Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia.'' [[Routledge]] International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, 2012 page 553.


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Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Te Awekotuku in 2010
Born1949 (age 74–75)
NationalityNew Zealand
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Auckland (MA, PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineMāori studies
Institutions
Doctoral studentsMere Whaanga, Ngarino Ellis
Notable worksMau Moko: the world of Maori tattoo

Ngahuia Te Awekotuku MNZM (born 1949) is a New Zealand academic specialising in Māori cultural issues and a lesbian activist.[1] In 1972, she was famously denied a visa to visit the United States on the basis of her sexuality.

Biography

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Te Awekotuku is descended from Te Arawa, Tūhoe and Waikato iwi (tribe).[2][3]

As a student, she was a member of the activist group Ngā Tamatoa at the University of Auckland.[4] Her Master of Arts thesis was on Janet Frame[4] and her PhD on the effects of tourism on the Te Arawa people.[4][5]

Te Awekotuku has worked across the heritage, culture and academic sectors as a curator, lecturer, researcher and activist. Her areas of research interest include gender issues, museums, body modification, power and powerlessness, spirituality and ritual.[6] She has been curator of ethnology at the Waikato Museum; lecturer in art history at Auckland University,[4] and professor of Māori studies at Victoria University of Wellington.[4] She was Professor of Research and Development at Waikato University.[2] She and Marilyn Waring contributed the piece "Foreigners in our own land" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan.[7] Although now retired, she continues to write and mentor students. Notable students include Mere Whaanga and Ngarino Ellis.[8][9]

Visitor's permit denial

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In 1972, Te Awekotuku was denied a visitor's permit to the United States on the grounds that she was a homosexual. Publicity around the incident was a catalyst in the formation of gay liberation groups in New Zealand.[10] This may have been related to a TV interview she gave in 1971, in which she described herself as a 'sapphic woman'.[11]

Research

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Tā moko

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Te Awekotuku has researched and written extensively on the traditional and contemporary practices of tā moko (tattoo) in New Zealand. Her 2007 (re-published in 2011) book Mau Moko: the world of Maori tattoo, co-authored with Linda Waimarie Nikora, was the product of a five-year long research project conducted by the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato, funded by a Marsden Fund grant.[12][13]

Death practices in Māori culture

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In 2009, Te Awekotuku and Linda Waimarie Nikora received a $950,000 Marsden Fund grant as lead researchers in the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at Waikato University for the research project Apakura: the Maori way of death. A further $250,000 was received from the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga National Institute of Research Excellence to explore past and present practices around tangihanga.[14]

Recognition

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In the 2010 New Year Honours, Te Awekotuku was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori culture.[15] In 2017, she won an Auckland Museum Medal.[16] Also in 2017, Te Awekotuku was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[17]

Selected publications

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On art and artists

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  • We will become ill if we stop weaving. From Mana Whina Maori Selected writings on Maori Women's art, culture and politics. Republished in ATE Journal of Māori Art, 2020, vol 2 pp. 90—103.
  • E ngaa uri whakatupu – weaving legacies : Dame Rangimarie Hetet and Diggeress Te Kanawa, Hamilton: Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, 2015. ISBN 9780473326036
  • 'Traditions endure : Five Maori Painters at Auckland Art Gallery', Art New Zealand, Winter 2014, no. 150, pp. 58–61.
  • 'A glorious tradition', Art New Zealand, Winter 2003, no.103.
  • Unveiling our hidden treasures : the Seventh Pacific Festival of Arts 1996;', Art New Zealand, Summer 1996/1997, no. 81, pp. 42–45,84.
  • 'Forgiving, but never forgetting : Shared Visions at the Auckland City Art Gallery', Art New Zealand, Winter 1996, no. 79, pp. 74–77.
  • 'He Take Ano: Another Take – Conversations with Lisa Reihana', Art New Zealand, Spring 1993, no. 68, pp. 84–87
  • 'Kura Te Waru Rewiri', Art New Zealand, Spring 1993, no. 68, pp. 91–93
  • Mana wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's art, culture and politics, Auckland: New Women's Press, 1991. ISBN 0908652631
  • 'Art and the spirit', New Zealand Geographic, Jan/Mar 1990, no. 5, pp. 93–97.
  • 'Mats of the Pacific', Art New Zealand, Spring 1989, no. 52, pp..88–90
  • 'Te whakahoutanga o Te Winika (The restoration of Te Winika)', New Zealand Listener, 28 November 1987, p. 67.
  • 'Ngahuia Te Awekotuku in conversation with Elizabeth Eastmond and Priscilla Pitts’, Antic, no. 1, 1986.

On tā moko

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  • 'Tā Moko: Māori Tattoo', in Goldie, (1997) exhibition catalogue, Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery and David Bateman, pp. 108–114.
  • 'More than Skin Deep', in Barkan, E. and Bush, R. (eds.), Claiming the Stone: Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (2002) Los Angeles: Getty Press, pp. 243–254.
  • Ta Moko: Culture, body modification, and the psychology of identity, paper given at the Proceedings of the National Māori Graduates of Psychology Symposium 2002.
  • Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua, your face: wearing Moko – Maori facial marking in today’s world[permanent dead link], paper given at Tatau/Tattoo: Embodied art and cultural exchange conference, Victoria University of Wellington, 21–22 August 2003.
  • Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua and Rolinda Karapu, Mau moko : the world of Māori tattoo, Auckland: Penguin Books, 2011. ISBN 9780143566854

On death practices in Māori culture

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  • Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Linda Waimarie Nikora, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, 'Manaakitanga: Ethical research with Māori who are dying', in M. Agee, T. McIntosh, P. Culbertson, & C. Makasiale (eds.), Pacific Identities and Well-Being – Cross Cultural Perspectives, London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 188–203.
  • Vincent Malcolm-Buchanan, Lina Waimarie Nikora and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Cloaked in Life and Death: Korowai, kaitiaki and tangihanga, MAI Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012.
  • Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Linda Waimarie Nikora, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, 'End-of-life care and Māori whānau resilience', MAI Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 140–152.

References

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  1. ^ Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "5. – Lesbian lives – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand". Teara.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku – Māori & Pacific Development : University of Waikato". Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. ^ King, Michael (5 August 2023). Penguin History of New Zealand. Penguin. p. 460. ISBN 978-0143018674.
  4. ^ a b c d e Samdog Design Ltd. "New Zealand Book Council". Archived from the original on 26 November 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  5. ^ Ngahuia, Te Awekotuku (1 January 1981). The sociocultural impact of tourism on the Te Arawa people of Rotorua, New Zealand. Researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz (Thesis). University of Waikato. Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku". Nga Pae O Te Maramatanga. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Table of Contents: Sisterhood is global". Catalog.vsc.edu. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  8. ^ Whaanga, Mere Joslyn (2012). Rata, the Effect of Māori Land Law on Ahikāroa (PhD thesis). The University of Waikato: Te Whare Wananga o Waikato. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  9. ^ Ellis, Ngarino (1 January 2012). A Whakapapa of Tradition : Iwirakau Carving 1830 to 1930 (Thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  10. ^ "Birth of the gay movement – Homosexual law reform | NZHistory, New Zealand history online". Nzhistory.net.nz. Archived from the original on 15 October 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  11. ^ "A Chronology of Homosexuality in New Zealand – Part 1 – Queer History New Zealand". Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  12. ^ "Mau Moko – The World of Māori tattoo". University of Waikato. 5 December 2007. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  13. ^ Tahana, Yvonne (24 July 2014). "Mau Moko – The World of Māori tattoo". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  14. ^ "Prestigious grant for Waikato Uni research into the Maori way of death". Waikato University. 8 October 2009. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  15. ^ "New Year honours list 2010". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  16. ^ "Museum Medals". aucklandmuseum.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  17. ^ "Ngahuia te Awekotuku". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.

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