RA1.1 PAPER: Mauri Hono: A Mauri sensory methodology
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/20597991241263379
Mauri Hono: A Mauri sensory methodology
August 2024
Apiti A, Kora A, Tassell-Matamua N, Moriarty TR, Matamua N, Lindsay N, Dell K, Pomare P, de la Torre Parra L, & Baikalova N. 2024. Mauri Hono: A Mauri sensory methodology. Methodological Innovations, 17(3), 135-146.
ABSTRACT
Within a Māori cultural context, the manifestation of mauri instilled in all living things, both animate and inanimate gives life. Previous research suggests Māori can experience somatic exchanges of energy such as mauri from both other people, as well as within the natural environment. Accordingly, Mauri Hono: A Mauri Sensory Methodology provides a foundation to understanding knowledge by tuning into our senses and using mauri states to help elicit meaning about ourselves and our relationships with natural environments when immersed in those environments. In this study, four key phases of the methodology are detailed; Rongo, Mōhio, Mārama and Mātau and applied to a case study which sought to understand how Māori draw meaning from their experience of being immersed in a natural environment. Ten participants undertook a hīkoi (walk) within a national forest park of regenerating, native, bush. Findings revealed the importance of tuning into one’s senses and having the time and space to interpret different experiences. Furthermore, Mauri Hono, as a Māori methodology is predicated on the belief that experiential knowledge aids in providing a more complete understanding of phenomena than theoretical knowledge alone. It further highlights that whilst knowledge can come into fruition within the timeframe of the project, there is opportunity for insights to arise afterwards, comprising various layers of knowing.
KEYWORDS
Māori; Indigenous methodology; cosmology; Mauri; environmental connection
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