Some brief notes on kai Māori
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Rangiwai, Byron
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2021
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Aotearoa
New Zealand
Māori food
food
Māori health
food insecurity
New Zealand
Māori food
food
Māori health
food insecurity
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Rangiwai, B. (2021). Some Brief Notes on Kai Māori. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 17(1), 1-29. doi:10.24135/tekaharoa.v17i1.359
Abstract
Food is a signifier of identity and status (Hayden, 1998, 2009; Hayden & Villeneuve, 2011; Neill et al., 2015). In traditional times, Māori consumed a range of hunted, gathered, and cultivated foods (Royal & Kaka-Scott, 2013). As a result of this diet, non-infectious diseases were low among Māori due to foods with higher levels of protective chemicals and nutrients (Cambie & Fergusson, 2003).
Pākehā settlers brought new foods such as wheat and potatoes (see McFarlane, 2007; Wharemate, 2015; Zhu & He, 2020 concerning potatoes specifically), corn, cabbage, and other vegetables (Royal & Kaka-Scott, 2013). Pākehā also introduced sheep, pigs, goats, and poultry (Royal & Kaka-Scott, 2013). These new foods added variation to the Māori diet.
Colonisation and land loss has negatively impacted Māori food sovereignty (Shirley, 2013), and poverty-related food insecurity damages Māori health (Beavis et al., 2018). In addition, due to the consumption of cheaper, processed foods, Māori
experience inexplicably high levels of obesity and associated illnesses, such as type 2 diabetes (Glover et al., 2019; McKerchar et al., 2021).
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Enamel mugs
Hāngi
Boil up and dough boys
Bread
Kāuta
Kererū
Mīti tahu
Kānga wai
Pōkinikini
Tuna
Hākari
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Auckland University of Technology
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10.24135/tekaharoa.v17i1.359
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