Author : Christopher M. Stojanowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107073545
Highlights the role of anthropologists in revealing the histories and contemporary social facts that are reflected in dead bodies.
Author : Gary Y. Okihiro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520942950
Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple Culture is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career. Following Gary Y. Okihiro's enthusiastically received Island World: A History of Hawai`i and the United States, Pineapple Culture continues to upend conventional ideas about history, space, and time with its provocative vision. At the center of the story is the thoroughly modern tale of Dole's "Hawaiian" pineapple, which, from its island periphery, infiltrated the white, middle-class homes of the continental United States. The transit of the pineapple brilliantly illuminates the history and geography of empires—their creations and accumulations; the circuits of knowledge, capital, labor, goods, and the cultures that characterize them; and their assumed power to name, classify, and rule over alien lands, peoples, and resources.
Author : Caroline Ralston
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1921902329
A pioneering study of early trade and beach communities in the Pacific Islands and first published in 1977, this book provides historians with an ambitious survey of early European-Polynesian contact, an analysis of how early trade developed along with the beachcomber community, and a detailed reconstruction of development of the early Pacific port towns. Set mainly in the first half of the 19th century, continuing in some cases for a few decades more, the book covers five ports: Kororareka (now Russell, in New Zealand), Levuka (Fiji), Apia (Samoa), Papeete (Tahiti) and Honolulu (Hawai'i). The role of beachcombers, the earliest European inhabitants, as well as the later consuls or commercial agents, and the development of plantation economies is explored. The book is a tour de force, the first detailed comparative academic study of these early precolonial trading towns and their race relations. It argues that the predominantly egalitarian towns where Islanders, beachcombers, traders, and missionaries mixed were largely harmonious, but this was undermined by later arrivals and larger populations.
Author : Adelbert von Chamisso
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Travel
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
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ISBN : 1496236718
Author : Thomas W. Goodhue
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476684987
King Kamehameha the Great had 30 wives. Ka'ahumanu (c.1768-1832) was his favorite. Descended from Oceanian voyagers, she grew up in a society completely isolated from the rest of the world, her life enmeshed in dynastic wars and constrained by an elaborate system of taboos. In 1778, she was shocked by the arrival of alien ships, followed by an influx of foreigners. In their wake came devastating epidemics. Seizing power after the King's death, Ka'ahumanu overturned those taboos and guided her nation through revolutionary change, crucial to the Hawaiian Islands' unification. Through sicknesses, romances, infidelities, murders, rebellions, pardons, travels, missionary work, and more, her story challenges many beliefs about American history, Christianity, and gender. Further, it has implications for current debates about immigration, sexuality, and religious diversity. Drawing on seldom-analyzed French and Russian sources, this biography covers neglected aspects of Ka'ahumanu's life. The many spouses and lovers she and Kamehameha had, the roles played by Central Europeans, African-Americans, Catholics and Unitarians in her realm, and struggles with religious pluralism are all included.
Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1985-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226845605
Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
Author : Leslie Dunmore-Leiber
Publisher :
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1976
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ISBN : 9780824205898
Author : Robert J. Hommon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199916128
Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, this book redefines the study of primary states by arguing for the inclusion of Polynesia, which witnessed the development of primary states in both Hawaii and Tonga.
Author : Paul R. Kan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1467146277
Home of luaus and surfing, the islands of Hawai'i have been riding a wave of beer making in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The last state in the Union has not been last in creating amazing beers full of the Aloha Spirit. Like the people who settled all over Polynesia, Hawai'i's beer brewers have been dreamers, adventurers and pioneers. From Captain James Cook's emergency beer that nearly inspired a mutiny in 1778 to today's explosion of celebrated craft breweries, the unique geography and culture make the islands a true beer lover's paradise. Join brewer Paul Kan on an adventure through the history of beer making in a tropical wonderland.
