(in Maori culture) close connection between people; kinship.
I dare to hope that whanaungatanga and friendship will create opportunities that party politics would normally disallow
Example sentencesExamples
- The notion of any abuse threatens the whole concept of whanaungatanga.
- If there is a whanaungatanga approach to this issue, then I suggest that members on the Government side of the Chamber would concur that we should get a Maori translation.
- These strategies have embedded the elements of functional analysis in both the larger Maori context of tikanga (rituals) and whanaungatanga (family relationships).
- It is not nepotism, but "whanaungatanga" [kinship], and done because the relatives can be trusted to do the job.
- That aunt and the rest of her tribe feel bereft of being able to link those children with the whanaungatanga I talk about.
- The defining principle of the Maori is whanaungatanga, or kinship.
- Whanaungatanga is the deeply ingrained concept that requires the desire to unite or link individuals with one another.
- The taught component is about the Maori identity focus and extended family connections with whanaungatanga.
- I dare to hope that whanaungatanga and friendship will create opportunities that party politics would normally disallow.
- There is no whanaungatanga there - none whatsoever.