The potential of prophecy: Māori prophetism and the community development
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In nineteenth century Aotearoa-New Zealand prophet-leaders rose up to challenge the hegemony of imperialism by melding Indigenous epistemologies with introduced ones. In this sense Māori prophets blended the old world with the new as a means of both cultural survival and resistance against colonialism. One such nineteenth century prophet-leader was Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (c.1832-c.1891) who blended traditional Māori knowledge with biblical ideas, knowing that for Māori traditions to survive, they needed to be synthesised with introduced ideas, thus avoiding complete obliteration. Te Kooti gave many prophecies, some of which were delivered as riddles rich with metaphor and mystery. As a result of severe land loss in the Rangitaiki Valley in the Bay of Plenty of New Zealand at the hands of a Pākehā (European) man, Te Kooti issued a prophecy of promise and restoration in which the future return of the land was guaranteed. Within the Māori sub-tribes of Patuheuheu and Ngāti Haka, to whom this prophecy was given, Te Kooti’s revelations gained new meaning; his words are continually being transported from history into contemporary times. This paper will explore and analyse the ways in which this prophecy is being used today within the Patuheuheu and Ngāti Haka sub-tribes and how this research is using this local knowledge to build a culturally appropriate, transformative community praxis and development model.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".