Joan Metge
{{Short description|New Zealand anthropologist, academic, educator}}
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London School of Economics
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Dame Alice Joan Metge {{post-nominals|country=NZL|DBE|size=100%}} (born 21 February 1930) is a New Zealand social anthropologist, educator, lecturer and writer.
Biography
Metge was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Roskill on 21 February 1930, the daughter of Alice Mary Metge (née Rigg) and Cedric Leslie Metge.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19300226.2.2.1 |title=Births |date=26 February 1930 |work= The New Zealand Herald |page=1 |access-date=20 June 2020}} She was educated at Matamata District High School and Epsom Girls' Grammar School.{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Alister |last2=Coddington |first2=Deborah |author-link1=Alister Taylor |author-link2=Deborah Coddington |title=Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand |year=1994 |publisher=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa |location=Auckland |isbn=0-908578-34-2 |page=264}} She went on to study at Auckland University College, graduating Master of Arts with first-class honours in 1952,{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university17.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Me–Mo |access-date=7 February 2015}} and the London School of Economics where she earned her PhD in 1958.
As of 2004, she continued to advance peace initiatives via her work as a member of the Waitangi National Trust Board, a conference presenter, adviser, and as a mentor to mediators and conflict management practitioners. A scholar on Māori topics, she has been recognised for promoting cross-cultural awareness and has published a number of books and articles in her career. She has likened the relationship among the people of New Zealand to "a rope [of] many strands which when woven or working together create a strong nation" (as paraphrased by Silvia Cartwright).{{cite web|url=http://www.gov-gen.govt.nz/utilities/printspeech.asp?ID=243|title=Dame Silvia Cartwright's address at a Garden Party at Government House, Wellington, to commemorate the 164th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi|date=6 February 2004|publisher=The Governor-General of New Zealand|access-date=13 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012205801/http://www.gov-gen.govt.nz/utilities/printspeech.asp?ID=243|archive-date=12 October 2007}}
Honours and awards
Metge was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to anthropology.{{London Gazette |issue=50950 |date=13 June 1987 |page=31 |supp=4}} In 1990, she received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. She was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Te Rangi Hiroa Medal for her research in the social sciences in 1997.[http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/programmes/awards/hiroa-medal/recipients/ Te Rangi Hiroa Medal - Recipients]. Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 20 January 2013. In 2001, the University of Auckland awarded Metge an honorary LittD degree.{{cite book |title=University of Auckland Calendar 2003 |url=http://www.calendar.auckland.ac.nz/archive/2003-calendar.pdf |access-date=7 February 2015 |page=633 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219072646/http://www.calendar.auckland.ac.nz/archive/2003-calendar.pdf |archive-date=19 December 2014 |url-status=dead }} In 2006 she received the Asia-Pacific Mediation Forum Peace Prize in Suva, Fiji.{{cite news|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00009.htm|date=3 July 2006|title=2006 Asia-Pacific Mediation Forum Peace Prize|work=Scoop|access-date=13 January 2008}} In 2017, Metge was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.{{Cite web|title=Dame Joan Metge|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/joan-metge/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}
Dame Joan Metge Medal
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In recognition of Metge's contribution to social sciences, the Royal Society of New Zealand established the Dame Joan Metge Medal in 2006. The medal is awarded every two years to a New Zealand social scientist for excellence in teaching, research and/or other activities contributing to capacity building and beneficial relationships between research participants. Since 2017, the medal has been referred to as the Metge Medal.{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/medals-and-awards/dame-joan-metge-medal/ |title=Metge Medal |year=2024 |publisher=Royal Society Te Apārangi |access-date=1 January 2024}}
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