The Maori Teachings of Pakeha Rapper Maitreya

The Teachings of Failure

My first duty is to thank you sincerely for the honour which you have done me in calling me to the presidential chair of this Society. If I do not proceed to enlarge upon my unfitness for a position of such responsibility, it is not that I am not conscious of it; but you are already too familiar with the expression of the sense of self-distrust which appears to be inseparable from the assumptio...

RAPPER: The Copier Modeling Project

The programme of research of model-based diagnosis is based on several assumptions, foremost of whichis the availability of component-based modelsof the system being diagnosed. This assumption has beenfairly innocuous for diagnosis of networks of combinatorial devices, for which the construction of models with appropriate levels of discriminatory power has been easy. A priori, however, there is...

The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Gout in the Maori.

To extend knowledge of the rheumatic diseases epidemiological studies are of considerable importance, and these are of particular interest where disease incidence in different racial groups living side by side can be compared. Such opportunity occurs in New Zealand, especially in the northern part of the North Island where live most of the Maori population. At Rotorua in the centre of this area...

An Accountability model for Pakeha practitioners

This paper outlines a model of accountability for Pakeha practitioners developed over many years as a practising community psychologist involved in research and development projects in Aotearoa in the 1980s and 1990s, during an era of contract-funded health projects, and increasing prominence of the Treaty of Waitangi. The model could be termed 'transformative' in that it reverses the usual flo...