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A karanga (call out, summon) is an element of cultural protocol of the Māori people of New Zealand. It is an exchange of calls that forms part of the pōwhiri , a Māori welcoming ceremony. It takes place as a visiting group moves onto the marae or into the formal meeting area.
A karanga is a formal, ceremonial call and response at the start of a pōwhiri (welcome ceremony) and is common on a marae. Karanga are carried out almost exclusively by women and in the Māori language.
Karanga may refer to: Karanga (district), Mangaia, Cook Islands; Karanga (Māori culture), an element of Māori cultural protocol, the calling of visitors onto a marae; Karanga (Moshi Urban Ward), Old Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania; Karanga Chhota (village), a village in India; Karanga language, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Chad
I would let people know how important it is to hold fast to your identity, because without your reo [Maori language] you are nothing. Edwards completed her memoirs with her third book, Mihipeka, Call of an Elder, Karanga a te Kuia, published in 2002. [5]
Production has begun on “Tangata Pai,” a Warner Bros. Discovery-backed drama that claims to be the first primetime series in which 30% of the dialog will be in the Maori language. The eight ...
I mean, I think there is a place for Maori culture but why is it that we always use a semi-naked male, sometimes quite pale-skinned Māori, leaping around in, you know, mock battle? [4] In April 2013 Danish Marie Krarup MP who visited New Zealand called a traditional Māori greeting "grotesque". [5]
The English and Maori versions of the treaty contain key differences, complicating its application and interpretation, some observers say. To address this, over the last 50 years, lawmakers ...
In Māori culture, the language is considered to be among the greatest of all taonga, or cultural treasures. [12] [13] Māori is known for its metaphorical poetry and prose, [14] [15] often in the form of karakia, whaikōrero, whakapapa and karanga, and in performing arts such as mōteatea, waiata, and haka. [16]