Legendary Places Of Ko Olau Poko

Author : Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812201178

Get Book

Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place by Cristina Bacchilega Pdf

Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into when we read these stories as texts in English-language translations? Cristina Bacchilega poses this question in her examination of the way these stories have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or other audiences. With an understanding of tradition that foregrounds history and change, Bacchilega examines how, following the 1898 annexation of Hawai'i by the United States, the publication of Hawaiian legends in English delegitimized indigenous narratives and traditions and at the same time constructed them as representative of Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian mo'olelo were translated in popular and scholarly English-language publications to market a new cultural product: a space constructed primarily for Euro-Americans as something simultaneously exotic and primitive and beautiful and welcoming. To analyze this representation of Hawaiian traditions, place, and genre, Bacchilega focuses on translation across languages, cultures, and media; on photography, as the technology that contributed to the visual formation of a westernized image of Hawai'i; and on tourism as determining postannexation economic and ideological machinery. In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.

Author : John R. K. Clark
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824847692

Get Book

North Shore Place Names by John R. K. Clark Pdf

In North Shore Place Names: Kahuku to Ka‘ena, ocean expert John Clark continues his fascinating look at Hawai‘i’s past as told through the stories hidden in its place names. This time the author takes the reader on a historical tour of the North Shore of O‘ahu, from Kahuku (the north point of the island) to Ka‘ena (the west point of the island), and uncovers the everyday lives of the residents, especially prior to the plantation era. Similar to his 2011 book, Hawaiian Surfing, to research this book Clark tapped into the Ho‘olaupa‘i online database (www.nupepa.org): a vast archive of 125,000 pages of Hawaiian-language newspapers published from 1834 to 1948. The author collected an enormous number of references to specific North Shore locations and presents them in an easy-to-use dictionary-style format, which includes original passages in Hawaiian with English translations by Keao NeSmith. Discover these highlights and others in this unique look at O‘ahu’s North Shore: Letters from the longtime principal of the girls’ school that eventually gave Hale‘iwa its name. Examples of the clash of cultures between traditional Hawaiian practices and Christianity, as evident in accounts of hula performances. Old-time traffic accidents—one that involved Queen Lili‘uokalani when she was trapped by her overturned horse-drawn carriage—and unusual train fatalities. Notices of auctions of Government lands, property trespasses, stolen sheep, and stray horses. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in Hawai‘i history and the Hawaiian language, North Shore Place Names brings to life the names, places, and events of the historic North Shore community.

Author : Jan Becket,Joe Singer
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824863845

Get Book

Pana O'ahu by Jan Becket,Joe Singer Pdf

Few regions of the United States can equal the high concentration of endangered ancient cultural sites found in Hawaii. Built by the indigenous people of the Islands, the sites range in age from two thousand to two hundred years old and in size and extent from large temple complexes serving the highest order of chiefs to modest family shrines. Today, many of these structures are threatened by their proximity to urban development. Sites are frequently vandalized or, worse, bulldozed to make way for hotels, golf courses, marinas, and other projects. The sixty heiau photographed and described in this volume are all located on Oahu, the island that has experienced by far the most development over the last two hundred years. These captivating images provide a compelling argument for the preservation of Hawaiian sacred places. The modest sites of the maka‘ainana (commoners) - small fishing, agricultural, craft, and family shrines - are given particular attention because they are often difficult to recognize and prone to vandalism and neglect. Also included are the portraits of twenty-eight Hawaiians who shared their knowledge with archaeologist J. Gilbert McAllister during his survey of Oahu in the 1930s. Without their contribution, the names and histories of many of the heiau would have been lost. The introductory text provides important contextual information about the definition and function of heiau, the history of the abolition of traditional Hawaiian religion, preservation issues, and guidelines for visiting heiau. With contributions by Kehaunani Cachola-Abad, J. Mikilani Ho, and Kawika Makanani.

Author : John R. K. Clark
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824862787

Get Book

Hawaii Place Names by John R. K. Clark Pdf

In his latest book, John Clark, author of the highly regarded "Beaches of Hawaii" series, gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawaii place names associated with the ocean--the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle. Significant features and landmarks on or near shores, such as fishponds, monuments, shrines, reefs, and small islands, are also included. The names of surfing sites are the most numerous and among the most colorful: from the purely descriptive (Black Rock, Blue Hole) to the humorous (No Can Tell, Pray for Sex). Clark began gathering information for the "Beaches" series in 1972, and during the years that followed interviewed hundreds of informants, many of them native Hawaiians, and consulted dozens of Hawaiian reference books, newspapers, and maps. A significant amount of the oral history he collected was unrecorded and remained only in his notebooks and memory. Hawaii Place Names: Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites is the final result of those years of research, and like its popular predecessors, it benefits substantially from Clark's having spent a lifetime surfing and swimming Hawaii's beaches. Presented in the same convenient format as Pukui, Elbert, and Mookini's Place Names of Hawaii (UH Press, 1974) this rich compendium of information on Hawaii's surf, shore, and beach sites will satisfy visitors and residents alike.

Author : ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452941219

Get Book

Voices of Fire by ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui Pdf

Stories of the volcano goddess Pele and her youngest sister Hi‘iaka, patron of hula, are most familiar as a form of literary colonialism—first translated by missionary descendants and others, then co-opted by Hollywood and the tourist industry. But far from quaint tales for amusement, the Pele and Hi‘iaka literature published between the 1860s and 1930 carried coded political meaning for the Hawaiian people at a time of great upheaval. Voices of Fire recovers the lost and often-suppressed significance of this literature, restoring it to its primary place in Hawaiian culture. Ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui takes up mo‘olelo (histories, stories, narratives), mele (poetry, songs), oli (chants), and hula (dances) as they were conveyed by dozens of authors over a tumultuous sixty-eight-year period characterized by population collapse, land alienation, economic exploitation, and military occupation. Her examination shows how the Pele and Hi‘iaka legends acted as a framework for a Native sense of community. Freeing the mo‘olelo and mele from colonial stereotypes and misappropriations, Voices of Fire establishes a literary mo‘okū‘auhau, or genealogy, that provides a view of the ancestral literature in its indigenous contexts. The first book-length analysis of Pele and Hi‘iaka literature written by a Native Hawaiian scholar, Voices of Fire compellingly lays the groundwork for a larger conversation of Native American literary nationalism.

Author : Anne Kapulani Landgraf
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780824815783

Get Book

Legendary Places of Ko'olau Poko by Anne Kapulani Landgraf Pdf

For the first time, a native Hawaiian photographer has combined her photographs with traditional Hawaiian references taken from native historians, lending the volume a cultural context drawn from a period before the arrival of foreigners in Hawaii.

Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824819381

Get Book

Feathered Gods and Fishhooks by Patrick Vinton Kirch Pdf

This text aims to combine all the evidence for Hawaiian prehistory into a coherent pattern. It presents a balanced cultural history of the Hawaiian group of islands, from the first Polynesian settlement to the time of European contact and is grounded in the archaeological evidence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Dance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016326279

Get Book

Hula Pahu by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edwin Horace Bryan
Publisher : Department of Anthropology Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062174818

Get Book

The Natural and Cultural History of Hōnaunau, Kona, Hawai'i by Edwin Horace Bryan Pdf

Natural and cultural history comprised of reports by various authors pertaining to archaeological invesigations at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park in Hōnaunau, Kona, Hawaiʻi.

Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824817397

Get Book

Legacy of the Landscape by Patrick Vinton Kirch Pdf

Precontact Hawaiian civilization is represented by a rich legacy of archaeological sites, many of which have been preserved and are accessible to the public. This volume provides for the first time an authoritative handbook to the most important of these archaeological treasures. The 50 sites covered by this book are distributed over all the main islands and include heiau (temples), habitation sites, irrigated and dryland agricultural complexes, fishponds, petroglyphs, and several post-contact (early 19th-century) sites. Site locations are shown on individual island maps, and detailed plans are provided for several sites.

Author : John R. K. Clark
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780824860325

Get Book

Hawaiian Surfing by John R. K. Clark Pdf

Hawaiian Surfing is a history of the traditional sport narrated primarily by native Hawaiians who wrote for the Hawaiian-language newspapers of the 1800s. An introductory section covers traditional surfing, including descriptions of the six Hawaiian surf-riding sports (surfing, bodysurfing, canoe surfing, body boarding, skimming, and river surfing). This is followed by an exhaustive Hawaiian-English dictionary of surfing terms and references from Hawaiian-language publications and a special section of Waikiki place names related to traditional surfing. The information in each of these sections is supported by passages in Hawaiian, followed by English translations. The work concludes with a glossary of English-Hawaiian surfing terms and an index of proper names, place names, and surf spots.

Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520947849

Get Book

How Chiefs Became Kings by Patrick Vinton Kirch Pdf

In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, traditional history, and theory, and drawing on significant contributions from his own four decades of research, Kirch argues that Hawaiian polities had become states before the time of Captain Cook’s voyage (1778-1779). The status of most archaic states is inferred from the archaeological record. But Kirch shows that because Hawai`i’s kingdoms were established relatively recently, they could be observed and recorded by Cook and other European voyagers. Substantive and provocative, this book makes a major contribution to the literature of precontact Hawai`i and illuminates Hawai`i’s importance in the global theory and literature about divine kingship, archaic states, and sociopolitical evolution.

Author : Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : NWU:35556005170832

Get Book

Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Pdf

Author : Edward Smith Craighill Handy,Elizabeth Green Handy,Mary Kawena Pukui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012041864

Get Book

Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment by Edward Smith Craighill Handy,Elizabeth Green Handy,Mary Kawena Pukui Pdf

Book on old native horticulture of the Hawaiian Islands with a focus on the cultivation of the soil. Descriptions of areas of habitation is covered in detail for each island: Kauai, Niihau, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Hawaii. Various plants and animals used in a Hawaiian economy are covered in detail: taro, sweet potato (ʻuala), breadfruit, banana, coconut, yam, arrowroot, sugar cane, pineapple, ʻawa, pandanus, bamboo, wauke (paper mulberry), gourds, ti, olona, ʻilima, ʻolena (turmeric), kukui, kou, wild plants, dogs, hogs, wild goats, chickens, birds, grasshoppers, and fish. Includes information on demography, social and family structures, and cultural practies such as makahiki around planting, homesteading and cultivating land.

Author : Giovanni Bennardo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015055599818

Get Book

Representing Space in Oceania by Giovanni Bennardo Pdf

Investigates space as a knowledge domain in particular the linguistic, mental and cultural representations of spatial relationships in Oceania.