![]() ![]() Arguing that indigenous movement practices incorporate genuinely embodied knowledge, we claim that skilled performance of haka is deeply mindful, embodying and transmitting dynamic, culturally shared understandings of the natural and social world. To make this case, we discuss the history of European responses to the haka, and analyse its diverse performance features in cultural context. Reproducing haka, we suggest, requires more than copying physical actions preserving the 'intangible' entails more than programming postures and movements. ![]() This 'Robot Māori Haka' proposal raises questions about the nature of skill and the transmission of embodied knowledge about the cognitive and affective experiences cultivated in indigenous practices like haka and about the role of robots in the archival aspirations of human societies. We respond to a recent proposal to program robots to perform a haka as 'cultural preservationists' for 'intangible cultural heritage'. To investigate the unique kinds of mentality involved in skilled performance, this paper explores the performance ecology of the Māori haka, a ritual form of song and dance of the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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