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Genealogical Violence: Mormon (Mis)Appropriation of Māori Cultural Memory through Falsification of Whakapapa

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  • المؤلفون: Simon, Hemopereki
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Electronic Resource
  • الدخول الالكتروني :
    https://kar.kent.ac.uk/104773/
    https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8010012
    https://kar.kent.ac.uk/104773
    https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8010012
    10.3390/genealogy8010012
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Publisher Information:
      MDPI 2024-01-25
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      The study examines how members of the historically white possessive and supremacist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States (mis)appropriated Māori genealogy, known as whakapapa. The Mormon use of whakapapa to promote Mormon cultural memory and narratives perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and white supremacy, as this paper shows. The research discusses Church racism against Native Americans and Pacific Peoples. This paper uses Anthropologist Thomas Murphy’s scholarship to demonstrate how problematic the Book of Mormon’s religio-colonial identity of Lamanites is for these groups. Application of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s white possessive doctrine and Hemopereki Simon’s adaptation to cover Church-Indigenous relations and the salvation contract is discussed. We explore collective and cultural memory, and discuss key Māori concepts like Mana, Taonga, Tapu, and Whakapapa. A brief review of LDS scholar Louis C. Midgley’s views on Church culture, including Herewini Jone’s whakapapa wānanga, is followed by a discussion of Māori cultural considerations and issues. The paper concludes that the alteration perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and Pacific peoples’ racialization and white supremacy. Genetic science and human migration studies contradict Mormon identity narratives and suggest the BOM is spiritual rather than historical. Finally, the paper suggests promoting intercultural engagement on Mormon (mis)appropriation of taonga Māori.
    • الموضوع:
      BJ Ethics; BL Religion; BR Christianity; BT Doctrinal Theology; E History America; GN Anthropology; GR Folklore; HM Sociology; HT Communities. Classes. Races; JQ Political institutions and public administrations (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.); JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration; K Law (General); Z665 Library Science. Information Science; Article; PeerReviewed
    • Availability:
      Open access content. Open access content
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    • Note:
      application/pdf
      Genealogical Violence: Mormon (Mis)Appropriation of Māori Cultural Memory through Falsification of Whakapapa
      English
    • Other Numbers:
      TUI oai:kar.kent.ac.uk:104773
      https://kar.kent.ac.uk/104773/1/genealogy-08-00012-with-cover.pdf
      Simon, Hemopereki (2024) Genealogical Violence: Mormon (Mis)Appropriation of Māori Cultural Memory through Falsification of Whakapapa. Genealogy, 8 (1). pp. 1-23. ISSN 2313-5778. (doi:10.3390/genealogy8010012 ) (KAR id:104773 )
      1428241856
    • Contributing Source:
      NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIV
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    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsoai.on1428241856
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