Death Notice or Farewell: Television and Hone Tuwhare

Raymond Nairn &Angela Moewaka Barnes

Bicultural SymposiumNZ Psychological Society Conference

Rotorua July 17-20, 2010

Death Notice – a Cultural Form

FOUR COMPONENTS

Name deceased

When they died

Relationships – spouse, children, descendants

Funeral – other occasions

3 NEWS – Hone Tuwhare has died

He’s gone, we’re left

Individual

Appropriated

POROPOROAKI

Deceased among their people

They should be accompanied

Speakers tell stories of

Address them directly

Dominant culture –This is how it is

But it doesn’t have to be

3 News itemindividualisedput past behind

Te Kaea itemtikanga of poroporoaki