Daniel Hernandez
BA Anthropology. MEd Education Culture and Society. University of Utah., PhD candidate Anthropology/Ethnomusicology University of Auckland
Biography
Daniel's parents are his first teachers and continual mentors in his life's education. Daniel has a partner and 4 children together. He is an urban diasporic Mayan who descends from K'iche', Mam, Tz'utujil, and K'aqchikel peoples. He is originally local to the West Side of Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., a neighbourhood called Rose Park and currently lives and studies as a doctoral candidate in Anthropology/Ethnomusicolgy in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).
Research | Current
Thesis: Rootz Vaka Transits: Seas of Urban Diasporic Indigeneity are Traversed by Collapsing Time and Space with the Songs and Stories of the Kava Canoe.
Interests: Kava, Indigeneity, Identity, Diaspora, Gender, Indigenous Research Methods, Decolonial theory, Critical Religious Studies, Indigenous Metaphysics and Theory (e.g., Mana/Tapu/Noa, Tāvāism, and Cosmovisión). Sports, Food, Pop Music/Culture and Media.
Teaching | Current
PTF 2019: Music and Identity, Anthropology 202
PTF 2018: Politics of Culture, Anthropology 244/330
Postgraduate supervision
Kirsten Zemke, Greg Booth, Sun Hee Koo
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Tecun (Daniel Hernandez) A, Hafoka, I., ‘Ulu‘ave L, & ‘Ulu‘ave-Hafoka M (2018). Talanoa: Tongan epistemology and Indigenous research method. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 14 (2), 156-163. 10.1177/1177180118767436
- Bell, A. V., & Hernandez, D. (2017). Cooperative Learning Groups and the Evolution of Human Adaptability. Human Nature, 28 (1), 1-15. 10.1007/s12110-016-9276-5
Contact details
Primary office location
HSB - EAST - Bldg 201E
Level 8, Room 847
10 SYMONDS ST
AUCKLAND CENTRAL
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand
