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Kāi Tahu anthropologist studying connectedness & everyday religion and colonial trauma & Indigenous histories. Teaching Anthropology UFV.
Sep 10, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
#BecauseOfLindaTuhiwaiSmith I began my journey back to te ao Māori. I read her Decolonizing Methodologies as a new doctoral student and it challenged my thoughts about myself. It challenged me to think about anthropological research and theory. (1/4) It was #BecauseOfLindaTuhiwaiSmith that I began to recognise the myriad ways colonialism shaped my perception and understanding of the world. It was the provocation to begin decolonizing myself. (2/4)