Guardianship, custody & access: Māori perspectives and experiences [pdf, 627 KB]
...nothing".25 However, it is much more, having been described as:26 "the realm between non-being and being: that is, the realm of potential being. This is the realm of primal, elemental energy or latent being. It is here that the seed-stuff of the universe and all created things gestate." 22 The whänau was the smallest social unit, numbering up to thirty people and consisting of two or three generations living as a unit withi...