Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Mapping the Indigenous Divide: A Post-Indigenous Response to Colonization
Thursday November 7th, 2013
Michael Ames Theatre- Museum of Anthropology, 11:30-1:30
Paul Tapsell
Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand
Abstract:
Kin-accountability is/was fundamental to an individual’s tribal identity as measured in terms of rights & responsibilities; duties & belonging; service and obligations to your relations. A net outcome of colonization is the separation of the individual from her/his value system of kin-accountability – geographical isolation from ancestral landscapes of belonging – and being required to survive as individuals in a world of western defined (colonizer) values. Tapsell’s presentation will explore the disparities between 3rd generation urban raised Māori and their tribal home communities, not least the rise of Ethnic Māori as the “Indigenous voice” of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and possible solutions to overcome this apparent divide.
