title: Universal dimensions of Islam: studies in comparative religion [Book Review]

authors: Drury, Abdullah

abstract: This article reviews the book 'Universal dimensions of Islam: studies in comparative religion', edited by Patrick Laude.

text: Universal dimensions of Islam: studies in comparative religion [Book Review] This article reviews the book 'Universal dimensions of Islam: studies in comparative religion', edited by Patrick Laude.

year: 2012-01

title: Modifying hydrological regime and catchment land use to improve water quality in Lake Waikare: Modelled insights

authors: Prentice, Matthew James

abstract: Effective management of eutrophication in large, shallow, lakes is particularly challenging, especially in catchments dominated by agricultural activities. These challenges are further exacerbated in lakes that have undergone significant hydrological and biogeochemical modification. In these systems, effective hydrological management strategies may involve increasing discharge rates to promote flushing and modifying lake depth to reduce the effects of wind-induced sediment resuspension, while effective biogeochemical modification may involve improving catchment management practices to reduce external nutrient loading. In this study, we present a modelling investigation of Lake Waikare, Waikato, New Zealand; a large (surface area: 34 km²), shallow (mean depth: 1.2 m), hypereutrophic lake that has experienced significant hydrological modification and water quality deterioration since the early 1900s.

text: Modifying hydrological regime and catchment land use to improve water quality in Lake Waikare: Modelled insights Effective management of eutrophication in large, shallow, lakes is particularly challenging, especially in catchments dominated by agricultural activities. These challenges are further exacerbated in lakes that have undergone significant hydrological and biogeochemical modification. In these systems, effective hydrological management strategies may involve increasing discharge rates to promote flushing and modifying lake depth to reduce the effects of wind-induced sediment resuspension, while effective biogeochemical modification may involve improving catchment management practices to reduce external nutrient loading. In this study, we present a modelling investigation of Lake Waikare, Waikato, New Zealand; a large (surface area: 34 km²), shallow (mean depth: 1.2 m), hypereutrophic lake that has experienced significant hydrological modification and water quality deterioration since the early 1900s.

year: 2025

title: He whiringa aroha: A mokopuna and a pare in the peabody essex museum

authors: Murray, Moana

abstract: Taonga, Māori ancestral treasures, embody the mana and knowledge of Māori ancestors. He Whiringa Aroha is one such treasure: a carved pare that affirms the mana of wāhine in the colonial archives, but whose whakapapa has been obscured. This thesis uses the name ‘He Whiringa Aroha’ and the te reo Māori pronoun ‘ia’ to refer to ‘E5501’, which is located in the 1806 Richardson collection in the Peabody Essex Museum. As He Whiringa Aroha travelled from Aotearoa New Zealand to Massachusetts, United States, ia became entangled in historical narratives that disembodied the taonga from hapū and iwi Māori. Taonga were not only physically removed from Aotearoa, but taonga and Māori creative practices were named, gendered, and displayed by colonisers. American sailors collected and displayed He Whiringa Aroha as an exotic ‘curiosity’ to showcase their triumph over Pacific waters. Yet, He Whiringa Aroha is a power portal—a potent braid to the past, the future, and to those Māori ways of being that defy the limiting archival language of colonialism. How do we relate to taonga Māori that have been fragmented by the colonial archive? What are alternatives to restory and reclaim taonga that remain in overseas museums? 

Using a creative methodology grounded in Mana Wahine and pūrākau, this thesis weaves a whiri (braid) of aroha (reverence) that attempts to restore he hononga mokopuna–the connection between taonga and their descendants. Through poetry, a decolonial map, interviews with ringatoi (Māori creatives), and archival research, I explore how the histories of taonga can be reclaimed in Māori worldviews. Interviews with pūkenga and tohunga toi reveal Māori understandings of taonga as expressions of toi, defying western taxonomies of ‘art’ and ‘curio’. Furthermore, archival research into the East India Marine Society and Peabody Essex Museum unmasks the American sailors and their provenance practices that
have marginalised Māori, and in particular, wāhine Māori. Finally, I use pūrākau of atua wāhine, Mana Wahine and takatāpui scholarship to restory and rename He Whiringa Aroha. This archival storytelling raises new ethical questions about ownership and kaitiakitanga (guardianship), which pose interventions for existing conversations about the place of taonga Māori in overseas museum collections. Reclaiming the histories of ancestors in museums is more than decolonizing colonial archives; on the contrary, restorying taonga is an act of Indigenous resurgence. This Masters research opens new possibilities to reclaiming takatāpui narratives and the mana of wahine in museum archives.

text: He whiringa aroha: A mokopuna and a pare in the peabody essex museum Taonga, Māori ancestral treasures, embody the mana and knowledge of Māori ancestors. He Whiringa Aroha is one such treasure: a carved pare that affirms the mana of wāhine in the colonial archives, but whose whakapapa has been obscured. This thesis uses the name ‘He Whiringa Aroha’ and the te reo Māori pronoun ‘ia’ to refer to ‘E5501’, which is located in the 1806 Richardson collection in the Peabody Essex Museum. As He Whiringa Aroha travelled from Aotearoa New Zealand to Massachusetts, United States, ia became entangled in historical narratives that disembodied the taonga from hapū and iwi Māori. Taonga were not only physically removed from Aotearoa, but taonga and Māori creative practices were named, gendered, and displayed by colonisers. American sailors collected and displayed He Whiringa Aroha as an exotic ‘curiosity’ to showcase their triumph over Pacific waters. Yet, He Whiringa Aroha is a power portal—a potent braid to the past, the future, and to those Māori ways of being that defy the limiting archival language of colonialism. How do we relate to taonga Māori that have been fragmented by the colonial archive? What are alternatives to restory and reclaim taonga that remain in overseas museums? 

Using a creative methodology grounded in Mana Wahine and pūrākau, this thesis weaves a whiri (braid) of aroha (reverence) that attempts to restore he hononga mokopuna–the connection between taonga and their descendants. Through poetry, a decolonial map, interviews with ringatoi (Māori creatives), and archival research, I explore how the histories of taonga can be reclaimed in Māori worldviews. Interviews with pūkenga and tohunga toi reveal Māori understandings of taonga as expressions of toi, defying western taxonomies of ‘art’ and ‘curio’. Furthermore, archival research into the East India Marine Society and Peabody Essex Museum unmasks the American sailors and their provenance practices that
have marginalised Māori, and in particular, wāhine Māori. Finally, I use pūrākau of atua wāhine, Mana Wahine and takatāpui scholarship to restory and rename He Whiringa Aroha. This archival storytelling raises new ethical questions about ownership and kaitiakitanga (guardianship), which pose interventions for existing conversations about the place of taonga Māori in overseas museum collections. Reclaiming the histories of ancestors in museums is more than decolonizing colonial archives; on the contrary, restorying taonga is an act of Indigenous resurgence. This Masters research opens new possibilities to reclaiming takatāpui narratives and the mana of wahine in museum archives.

year: 2024