Maori culture today

Communicating Culture: An Exploratory Study of the Key Concepts in Maori Culture on Maori Web Sites

We examine how accurately the belief system or cultural concepts of Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, is reconstructed in the virtual world of the Internet. Nine Maori web sites were searched using a list of 44 key concepts in Maori culture. We registered how many pages within a particular web site contain each of the key concepts. These numbers were set up in a data matrix for furth...

Breast cancer in Maori and non-Maori women.

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is more common in Maori than in non-Maori women under the age of 40 years and is equally common in older women, despite Maori being generally of lower socioeconomic status and having had a higher fertility rate than non-Maori. METHODS Data from a nationwide population-based case-control study of breast cancer in New Zealand women aged 25-54 years were used to compare ...

Material Culture: Still ‘Terra Incognita’ for Psychology Today?

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2015, Vol. 11(2), 172–176, doi:10.5964/ejop.v11i2.995 Published (VoR): 2015-05-29. *Corresponding author at: Institute of Psychology, Lausanne University, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), w...

Infant and Child in the Culture of Today

The material has been organized in a logical, concise manner so that the reader may find guidance during any phase of a relative's illness. The chapters progress in orderly, natural fashion from the beginning of illness to convalescence and include a diversity of problems which reveal a thorough acquaintance with their complexity. The carefully selected material is based on wholly acceptable ps...

Maori attitudes toward abortion.