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culture is constantly produced and changed, there isn't a "local culture" That's a mindset that the Maori, like many other Aboriginal peoples, have already suf
by masonic 8y ago
culture is constantly produced and changed, there isn't a "local culture"
That's a mindset that the Maori, like many other Aboriginal peoples, have already suffered.
- fabianhjr 8y agoThat statement isn't meant as to say that people don't have or produce culture, specially first nations. Instead it is a statement about the non-locality of culture. (In the lines of https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Deterritorialization https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Deterritorialization) Even more, the attack on first nations have been mostly on economic aspects, mainly the land trough colonization. (See Mariategui Seven Essays on the Peruvian Reality, specifically the third essay https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/essay03.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpreti..., original in spanish: http://resistir.info/livros/mariategui_7_ensayos.pdf http://resistir.info/livros/mariategui_7_ensayos.pdf ) The Maori culture is maintained by Maori people engaging in culture not merely by a museum exposing "the Maori cultre" and a society disenfranchizing Maori.