Genealogical Violence: Mormon (Mis)Appropriation of Māori Cultural Memory through Falsification of Whakapapa

Genealogy Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI:10.3390/genealogy8010012
Hemopereki Simon
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The study examines how members of the historically white possessive and supremacist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States (mis)appropriated Māori genealogy, known as whakapapa. The Mormon use of whakapapa to promote Mormon cultural memory and narratives perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and white supremacy, as this paper shows. The research discusses Church racism against Native Americans and Pacific Peoples. This paper uses Anthropologist Thomas Murphy’s scholarship to demonstrate how problematic the Book of Mormon’s religio-colonial identity of Lamanites is for these groups. Application of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s white possessive doctrine and Hemopereki Simon’s adaptation to cover Church-Indigenous relations and the salvation contract is discussed. We explore collective and cultural memory, and discuss key Māori concepts like Mana, Taonga, Tapu, and Whakapapa. A brief review of LDS scholar Louis C. Midgley’s views on Church culture, including Herewini Jone’s whakapapa wānanga, is followed by a discussion of Māori cultural considerations and issues. The paper concludes that the alteration perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and Pacific peoples’ racialization and white supremacy. Genetic science and human migration studies contradict Mormon identity narratives and suggest the BOM is spiritual rather than historical. Finally, the paper suggests promoting intercultural engagement on Mormon (mis)appropriation of taonga Māori.
家谱暴力:摩门教通过篡改《瓦卡帕帕》(Whakapapa)(误)挪用毛利文化记忆
本研究探讨了美国历史上白人占有主义和白人至上主义的耶稣基督后期圣徒教会成员如何(错误地)盗用毛利人的家谱,即所谓的 "瓦卡帕帕"(whakapapa)。摩门教使用whakapapa来宣传摩门教的文化记忆和叙事,使定居者/入侵者殖民主义和白人至上主义永久化,正如本文所示。研究讨论了教会针对美国原住民和太平洋岛屿居民的种族主义。本文利用人类学家托马斯-墨菲(Thomas Murphy)的学术成果来证明《摩门经》中拉曼人的宗教殖民身份对这些群体是多么有问题。本文讨论了艾琳-莫尔顿-罗宾逊(Aileen Moreton-Robinson)的白人占有学说和赫莫佩雷基-西蒙(Hemopereki Simon)的改编,以涵盖教会与土著人的关系和救赎契约。我们探讨了集体记忆和文化记忆,并讨论了Mana、Taonga、Tapu和Whakapapa等关键的毛利概念。本文简要回顾了 LDS 学者 Louis C. Midgley 对教会文化的看法,包括 Herewini Jone 的 whakapapa wānanga,随后讨论了毛利文化因素和问题。本文的结论是,这一改动延续了定居者/入侵者殖民主义以及太平洋岛屿人民的种族化和白人至上主义。遗传科学和人类迁徙研究与摩门教的身份叙述相矛盾,并表明《圣经》是精神性的而非历史性的。最后,本文建议就摩门教对毛利语的(错误)挪用问题促进跨文化接触。
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