Is ‘Legal Personhood’ a Tool or a Distraction for Māori Relationships With Nature?
- Author: Latoya Abulu
- Full Title: Is ‘Legal Personhood’ a Tool or a Distraction for Māori Relationships With Nature?
- Type: #snippet✂️
- Document Tags: #planet
- URL: https://info.ithaka.org/acton/ct/10452/s-3485-2407/Bct/l-2ff8/l-2ff8:3d4d/ct5_0/1/lu?sid=TV2%3Ap2A6ZHaLn
Highlights
- When Māori whakapapa (cite their genealogy), they identify their mountain and their river as part of that, she explains. The term they use to describe themselves — tangata whenua, or people of the land — is not just tidy phrasing: It’s a metaphor for the way that, when they arrived from Polynesia, they interwove their genealogies, stories and histories through the landscape. (View Highlight)