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The Woven Universe: Selected Writings
Posthumous collection edited by Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal that brings together his writings on Māori philosophy, theology, knowledge and law, from “God, Man and Universe” to his texts on kaitiakitanga and an extract from his last seminar.
Introduction
The volume was edited in 2003 by the Māori scholar Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal and published by the Marsden estate at Ōtaki; it was the first collection of Marsden’s substantial writings, many of which had existed only as papers, lectures and notes. Beside “God, Man and Universe” it contains texts on Māori knowledge and the whare wānanga, on kaitiakitanga – the guardianship of the natural world by those who are related to it –, on the Treaty of Waitangi and the legal system, and an extract from his last seminar at Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa in Ōtaki. A recurring image is that of the universe as a woven fabric, a kahu, of energies and relations, which Marsden also related to modern physics. The book is a standard reference in Māori studies, environmental policy and education in Aotearoa New Zealand and is listed among the landmark Māori books of Te Takarangi.
Connections
Builds on
- God, Man and Universe: A Māori View1975 · Māori Marsden
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