Whakapapa And The State: CHAPTER ONE

This thesis is an investigation into how tradition-based societies, such as Mäori, are coping with challenges and changes to their organisational structures, and how they are adapting to the changes in ways that allow them to remain an integral part of New Zealand society. An important argument within this thesis is that Mäori are becoming less reliant on whakapapa, their tradition-based organisation process, and more reliant on modern, legal-bureaucratic processes when reshaping their iwi governance structures. This has meant that whakapapa, the base of Mäori tradition-based organisation, has become marginalised as the way of structuring and maintaining relationships that are important to the growth and development of Mäori groups.

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