Pana O'ahu

Pana O'ahu
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9780824818289
ISBN-13 : 0824818288
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Pana O'ahu by : Jan Becket

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.

Pana O'ahu

Pana O'ahu
Author :
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9780824863845
ISBN-13 : 0824863844
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Pana O'ahu by : Jan Becket

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.

Legendary Places of Ko'olau Poko

Legendary Places of Ko'olau Poko
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9780824815783
ISBN-13 : 0824815785
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Legendary Places of Ko'olau Poko by : Anne Kapulani Landgraf

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.

Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore ...

Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore ...
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Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : UCR:31210017046887
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore ... by : Thomas George Thrum

Literature collection of Hawaiian antiquities, legends, traditions, mele, and genealogies that were gathered by Abraham Fornander, S. M. Kamakau, J. Kepelino, S. N. Haleole and others. The original collection of manuscripts was purchased from the Fornander estate following his death in 1887 by Charles R. Bishop for preservation, and became part of the Bishop Musem collection. The papers were published from 1916-1919 as volume IV, V, and VI of the series Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. The manuscripts were translated, revised and edited by Dr. W. D. Alexander and Thomas G. Thrum.

Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore ...

Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore ...
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Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : UCR:31210017046812
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Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore ... by : Abraham Fornander

Literature collection of Hawaiian antiquities, legends, traditions, mele, and genealogies that were gathered by Abraham Fornander, S. M. Kamakau, J. Kepelino, S. N. Haleole and others. The original collection of manuscripts was purchased from the Fornander estate following his death in 1887 by Charles R. Bishop for preservation, and became part of the Bishop Musem collection. The papers were published from 1916-1919 as volume IV, V, and VI of the series Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. The manuscripts were translated, revised and edited by Dr. W. D. Alexander and Thomas G. Thrum.

Selections from Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore

Selections from Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9780824846312
ISBN-13 : 0824846311
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Selections from Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore by : Samuel H. Elbert

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Regional Rhetorics

Regional Rhetorics
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 121
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ISBN-10 : 9781317700210
ISBN-13 : 131770021X
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Regional Rhetorics by : Jenny Rice

Regionalism is a term that has been used to describe many different kinds of phenomena, including political, geographical, architectural, and literary. This collection examines "rhetorical regionalism," or the relationships we have to physical regions and the idea of regionality. Regional rhetorics are more than simply the fact of local conditions in certain spaces. They are the ways people produce feelings of belonging and discourses of normalcy within those spaces. The authors in this collection bypass familiar narratives of nationality and localism in order to imagine regions as interfaces that help us to negotiate everyday life. Regions are more than physical spaces, therefore. Regional rhetorics can provide different narratives in order to help us invent new kinds of connections to place and publics. They give us new descriptions of relationships, a power that merges together the tectonic (spatial) and the architectonic (discursive) impulses of rhetoric. The book was originally published as a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

The Sites of Oahu

The Sites of Oahu
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:154669777
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Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place

Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9780812201178
ISBN-13 : 0812201175
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

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

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.