tikanga Maori

English

Etymology

From Maori tikanga Māori.

Noun

tikanga Maori (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) Maori customs and values, considered as a collective body of belief and behaviour. [from 19th c.]
    • 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 128:
      The major points of Christian belief that would contrast with tikanga Māori were the notions that natural man was a fallen creature needing to be redeemed by Christ's suffering and death; and that every human life […] was of equal value in the eyes of Te Atua and those who ackowledged Him.
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