This document summarizes interviews with three participants about Maori culture and tourism in New Zealand. Participant 1 and 2 said the traditional Haka dance is performed at funerals and festivals. Participant 3 said Haka is performed on special occasions like birthdays. Participant 1 and 2 have seen Maori tattoos on faces as part of tradition, while Participant 3 said tattoos are often just fashion. The document also briefly describes traditional Maori foods like hangi (cooked in an underground oven) and kumara (sweet potato), as well as historic intertribal warfare.
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Maninder assinment
1. Introduction
This assignment is about the Maori culture
and the tourism in NZ . I interviewed three
person with their permission and hereby
present the interview in graphics .
It includes three participants and a couple
of questions were asked from them.
6. Analysis
Participant 1 and Participant 2 explained that
Haka dance is done by the most of the
people when there is a death of a person
Also, says he has attended a festival of Maori
tradition and he saw everyone dancing there
and concludes that that’s Haka
Participant 3 says that Haka is traditional
,Maori dance and they dance on the special
occasions like their birthdays or special
function's
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9. Analysis
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Participant 1 and Participants 2 says that they
have seen tattoos on face of various people
in nz as they have in their tradition. But
Participants 3 says that they have tattoos on
their body because its fashion in Maori
culture.
11. Hangi
Hangi is a traditional New Zealand Māori
method of cooking food using heated rocks
buried in a pit oven still used for special
occasions.
To "lay a hangi" or "put down a hangi" involves
digging a pit in the ground, heating stones in
the pit with a large fire, placing baskets of
food on top of the stones, and covering
everything with earth for several hours before
uncovering (or lifting) the hangi
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12. Kumara –Sweet Potato
kumara was grown, although in many cases
free-draining sand, gravels and pumice were
mixed with humus rich loam. Kumara are slow
growing in the temperate NZ climate and need
free-draining sub soils. In the Eastern Golden Bay
north facing slopes were favoured.
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13. Warfare
Intertribal warfare are essential parts of
their culture.
It was their way of gaining control of their
land.
After defeating a tribe, they either eat the
defeated (ultimate insult) or they take the
women and children to be their slaves.
Their weapons consisted of long or short
wooden clubs resembling spear, but are
not thrown.
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14. Conclusion
To put it in nutshell that the P-1 and P-3 are
aware about the Maori culture as what is
going on over their surround and what they
hear from friends. And about P-2 , he was
just came to New Zealand and mostly
doesn’t know much about the Maori
culture but he has been ton places in his
leisure time and knows about the tourism in
New Zealand
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