A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay

This study is an early observation from the perspective of a Malay Muslim who has never been to New Zealand. The topic is related to the discipline of architecture as well as landscape architecture. It suggests the link between plant species, fern, with the cultural habits and values of Austronesian...

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Main Authors:	Yaman, Maheran, Wan Abdul Rahman, Wan Mohammad Rafaei
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English English English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/1/3rd_International_Seminar__Malay%2C_Maori_and_Pacific_Language%2C_Art_and_Culture_at_Te_Herenga_Waka_Marae.htm http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/3/Asst._Prof._Dr._Maheran_Yaman.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/4/The3rdInternationalSeminar.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/10/CONF16_Austronesians.pdf

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spelling	iium-236762013-02-13T21:06:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/ A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay Yaman, Maheran Wan Abdul Rahman, Wan Mohammad Rafaei GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography This study is an early observation from the perspective of a Malay Muslim who has never been to New Zealand. The topic is related to the discipline of architecture as well as landscape architecture. It suggests the link between plant species, fern, with the cultural habits and values of Austronesian communities such as the Maori in New Zealand, the Malay in Sumatra, Indonesia and in Peninsular Malaysia. From a view of a cultural landscape perceptions, this study produce a comparisons on fern as an emblem with a comparisons of carving motif using ferns in other Austronesian community such as Maori in the aninism society in New Zealand and Islam for the Malay in Malaysia and Minangkabau in Indonesia. It is important to study the relationship of fern and carving in the Austronesian and Malay architectures in order to see how environment influenced the society. Moreover, how the environment is use as tool or metaphor to educate society. In term of human geography, the sea farers origins of Maori in New Zealand and Malays in the Malay Archipelago can be traced by the sea route around Polynesian island. Though differs in believes the Austronesian still have their similarities. This is seen in the use of ferns as the carving motives as demonstrate in this study. 2012-03-23 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/1/3rd_International_Seminar__Malay%2C_Maori_and_Pacific_Language%2C_Art_and_Culture_at_Te_Herenga_Waka_Marae.htm application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/3/Asst._Prof._Dr._Maheran_Yaman.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/4/The3rdInternationalSeminar.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/10/CONF16_Austronesians.pdf Yaman, Maheran and Wan Abdul Rahman, Wan Mohammad Rafaei (2012) A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay. In: Malay Studies Conference , 23-24 March 2012, Marae, Victoria U Wellington, NZ. (In Press)
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spellingShingle	GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography Yaman, Maheran Wan Abdul Rahman, Wan Mohammad Rafaei A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay
description	This study is an early observation from the perspective of a Malay Muslim who has never been to New Zealand. The topic is related to the discipline of architecture as well as landscape architecture. It suggests the link between plant species, fern, with the cultural habits and values of Austronesian communities such as the Maori in New Zealand, the Malay in Sumatra, Indonesia and in Peninsular Malaysia. From a view of a cultural landscape perceptions, this study produce a comparisons on fern as an emblem with a comparisons of carving motif using ferns in other Austronesian community such as Maori in the aninism society in New Zealand and Islam for the Malay in Malaysia and Minangkabau in Indonesia. It is important to study the relationship of fern and carving in the Austronesian and Malay architectures in order to see how environment influenced the society. Moreover, how the environment is use as tool or metaphor to educate society. In term of human geography, the sea farers origins of Maori in New Zealand and Malays in the Malay Archipelago can be traced by the sea route around Polynesian island. Though differs in believes the Austronesian still have their similarities. This is seen in the use of ferns as the carving motives as demonstrate in this study.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Yaman, Maheran Wan Abdul Rahman, Wan Mohammad Rafaei
author_facet	Yaman, Maheran Wan Abdul Rahman, Wan Mohammad Rafaei
author_sort	Yaman, Maheran
title	A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay
title_short	A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay
title_full	A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay
title_fullStr	A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay
title_full_unstemmed	A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay
title_sort	preliminary study on austronesian interpretation on ferns as carving motives in the community involving the new zealander maori, indonesian minangkabau & malaysian malay
publishDate	2012
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/1/3rd_International_Seminar__Malay%2C_Maori_and_Pacific_Language%2C_Art_and_Culture_at_Te_Herenga_Waka_Marae.htm http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/3/Asst._Prof._Dr._Maheran_Yaman.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/4/The3rdInternationalSeminar.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/23676/10/CONF16_Austronesians.pdf
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A preliminary study on Austronesian interpretation on Ferns as carving motives in the community involving the New Zealander Maori, Indonesian Minangkabau & Malaysian Malay

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