| Generally, western-dominated research has been seen as appropriative and inconsistent with Maori world views and understandings. |
| Entertaining and allusive, Lang's appropriative style works in both directions. |
| Because appropriative rights can be separated from the land and sold or leased, they can form the basis for private water trades. |
| It was, and is, inherently wasteful, despite the proclaimed limitation of the appropriative right to an amount of water which can be beneficially used. |
| It is Fevvers' ambiguity which allows her to elude the appropriative gestures of spectators and would be captors. |
| All was inspired not by Santa Cruz, but by Kate and Laura's childhood memories, or confabulations, thereof — a meaningful step away from the culture's appropriative mood. |
