Wilkinson, Areta Rachael2015-08-062015-08-062014http://hdl.handle.net/10179/6949This thesis investigates and articulates an ethical Maori framework for New Zealand contemporary jewellery practice that represents a distinctive method of making, and thinking, unique to Te Waipounamu/Aotearoa New Zealand. Contemporary jewellery is an international applied art genre that self-consciously investigates the wearable object and the body as a site of reference, including related social contexts, such as ideas of preciousness, memento and heirloom. Currently a comprehensive analysis of contemporary jewellery practice embedded in whakapapa from Te Waipounamu/Aotearoa does not exist, and this thesis explores the implications of thinking about contemporary jewellery practice from a Kai Tahu, and Maori perspective through a taoka methodology. The metaphor of pepeha allows contemporary jewellery to be located within a Maori social context and a uniquely Maori system of knowing, by contextualising taoka/contemporary jewellery alongside oral narrative as statements of collective identity anchored in Te Ao Kai Tahu (a Kai Tahu worldview). The thesis asks: How can a contemporary jewellery practice be informed by narratives of whakapapa, whenua, kaika, and thus become taoka tuku iho?enThe AuthorEthnic jewelleryModern jewelleryMāoriNew ZealandAotearoaResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::ArtPepehaJewellery as pepeha : contemporary jewellery practice informed by Māori inquiry : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts at Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Palmerston North, Aotearoa New ZealandThesisQ111965502https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111965502