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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rua, Mohi
• Hodgetts, Darrin
• Stolte, Ottilie

Titel

Maori men: An indigenous psychological perspective on the interconnected self

Ist Teil von

• New Zealand journal of psychology (Christchurch. 1983), 2017-11, Vol.46 (3), p.55

Ort / Verlag

New Zealand Psychological Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The positive relational practices of Maori men are seldom explored in academic research. Responding to this gap in the literature, this article explores how Maori men negotiate a positive sense of self and relationships. This research is guided by kaupapa Maori research practice, Maori cultural concepts, and relational understandings of identity and wellbeing. Our ethnographic approach involved direct observations, engagement in shared cultural practices and narrative interviews. During these interactions, participating men invoked a positive sense of self through accounts of belonging, reciprocity, dialogue, intimacy, and care for themselves, their whanau, and traditions. We found that Maori men's identities are negotiated through interactions with whanau (immediate and extended family), and particular places and practices. Our participants demonstrated how Maori men's positive self-constructions are fundamentally interconnected with other people, cultural traditions, socio-cultural practices, physical and symbolic places, as well as their own health and the health of those around them.