Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku MNZM (born 1949) is a New Zealand academic specialising in Māori cultural issues and a lesbian activist.[1]
Biography
Te Awekotuku is descended from Te Arawa, Tūhoe and Waikato iwi.[2]
As a student she was a member of Ngā Tamatoa at the University of Auckland,[3] her MA thesis was on Janet Frame[3] and her PhD on the effects of tourism on the Te Arawa people.[3][4] She has been curator of ethnology at the Waikato Museum; lecturer in art history at Auckland University,[3] and professor of Maori studies at Victoria University of Wellington.[3] She was Professor of Research and Development at Waikato University[2]. Although now retired, she continues to write.
In the 2010 New Year Honours Te Awekotuku was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori culture. [5]
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.[6] This may have been related to a TV interview she gave in 1971, in which she described herself as a 'sapphic woman'[7]
Selected publications
See also google scholar
- He tikanga whakaaro: Research ethics in the Maori community: A discussion paper Ministry of Māori Affairs
- Mana wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's art, culture and politics New Woman Press
- Mau Moko: the world of Maori tattoo Viking Penguin
- CLOAKED IN LIFE AND DEATH: Korowai, kaitiaki and tangihanga MAI Journal 2012.
Other sources
- Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia. Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, 2012 page 553.
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References
- ^ http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/lesbian-lives/page-5
- ^ a b http://www.waikato.ac.nz/smpd/about/staff/ngahuia
- ^ a b c d e http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Te-Awekotuku,-Ngahuia.htm
- ^ http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/7389
- ^ "New Year honours list 2010". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ^ http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/homosexual-law-reform/birth-of-the-gay-movement
- ^ http://gaynz.net.nz/history/Part1.html
- LGBT rights activists from New Zealand
- New Zealand Māori academics
- 1949 births
- Te Arawa
- Ngāi Tūhoe
- Waikato (iwi)
- New Zealand curators
- New Zealand women academics
- LGBT people from New Zealand
- Living people
- University of Auckland alumni
- Victoria University of Wellington faculty
- University of Waikato faculty
- New Zealand women curators
- Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit