Author: James M. Bayman
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646425138
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Given its relatively late encounter with the West, Hawaii offers an exciting opportunity to study a society whose traditional lifeways and technologies were recorded in native oral traditions and written documents before they were changed by contact with non-Polynesian cultures. This book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series chronicles the role of archaeology in constructing a narrative of Hawaii’s cultural past, focusing on material evidence dating from the Polynesians’ first arrival on Hawaii’s shores about a millennium ago to the early decades of settlement by Americans and Europeans in the nineteenth century. A final chapter discusses new directions taken by native Hawaiians toward changing the practice of archaeology in the islands today.
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Author: Mary Kawena Pukui
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824842103
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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How many place names are there in the Hawaiian Islands? Even a rough estimate is impossible. Hawaiians named taro patches, rocks, trees, canoe landings, resting places in the forests, and the tiniest spots where miraculous events are believed to have taken place. And place names are far from static--names are constantly being given to new houses and buildings, streets and towns, and old names are replaced by new ones. It is essential, then, to record the names and the lore associated with them now, while Hawaiians are here to lend us their knowledge. And, whatever the fate of the Hawaiian language, the place names will endure. The first edition of Place Names of Hawaii contained only 1,125 entries. The coverage is expanded in the present edition to include about 4,000 entries, including names in English. Also, approximately 800 more names are included in this volume than appear in the second edition of the Atlas of Hawaii.
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Author: William De Witt Alexander
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Radiocarbon dating
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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