Te Maire Tau

Prof. Te Maire Tau is Pou Whakarae at the Ngāi Tahu Centre at the University of Canterbury. We talked to him about Māori traditional knowledge and (Western) science; local traditions and New Zealand democracy; and whether Polynesians discovered Antarctica.

Papers by Te Maire Tau and others that we discussed:
The Death of Knowledge: https://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/...
Mātauranga Māori as an epistemology:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
A Short Scan of Māori Journeys to Antarctica: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
The improbability of Pre-European Polynesian Voyages to Antarctica:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...