Author: Charles Montgomery Skinner
Publisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Myths & Legends of Our New Possessions & Protectorate
Author: Charles Montgomery Skinner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Myths & Legends of Our New Possessions & Protectorate
Author: Charles Montgomery Skinner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete
Author: Charles M. Skinner
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The author of the book, Charles Skinner, considers that America lacks its own myths and legends that give so much charm to the picturesque chalets and ruins of Europe. Yet, he believes that this aspect of cultural life develops every day from the thousands of spoken stories. He aimed to collect these stories into a book to document the beginnings of American folklore.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The author of the book, Charles Skinner, considers that America lacks its own myths and legends that give so much charm to the picturesque chalets and ruins of Europe. Yet, he believes that this aspect of cultural life develops every day from the thousands of spoken stories. He aimed to collect these stories into a book to document the beginnings of American folklore.
Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place
Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
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.
The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Seeing Nature First
Author: Clarence Moores Weed
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The True History of the American Revolution
Author: Sydney George Fisher
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move
Author: Jorge Duany
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807861472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952. Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican "nation" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others--American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example--have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807861472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952. Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican "nation" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others--American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example--have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts.
Argonaut
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description