Maoritanga

See also: Māoritanga

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori Māoritanga.

Noun

Maoritanga (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) Māori culture, traditions, and way of life; Maoriness. [from 19th c.]
    • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 62:
      ‘But I'm Maori. And that's the way I feel too, the way you said, that that the Maoritanga has got lost in the way I live.’
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