Author: R. K. Gilbert
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847996078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
When Sarah surfs a wave off Waikiki Beach, the surfboard accidentally hits her in the head. She wakes up and finds herself facing a stray dog, Pupua, on a deserted beach. Pupua leads her to a village. The villagers hail her as Malama, a demigod, who according to legend would return to the island on the day of distress. War has broken out on the neighboring islands. Kamehameha, the lonely one, has won all the bloody battles and has established himself as king. One island remains to be taken and only Malama can save this island from blood shed. Forced to proved that she is Malama, Sarah battles, befriends and encounters many other Hawaiian myths and legends. In the process, she is taken on a journey between reality and fantasy.
The Wave Walker and the Spirit of Malama
Author: R. K. Gilbert
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847996078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
When Sarah surfs a wave off Waikiki Beach, the surfboard accidentally hits her in the head. She wakes up and finds herself facing a stray dog, Pupua, on a deserted beach. Pupua leads her to a village. The villagers hail her as Malama, a demigod, who according to legend would return to the island on the day of distress. War has broken out on the neighboring islands. Kamehameha, the lonely one, has won all the bloody battles and has established himself as king. One island remains to be taken and only Malama can save this island from blood shed. Forced to proved that she is Malama, Sarah battles, befriends and encounters many other Hawaiian myths and legends. In the process, she is taken on a journey between reality and fantasy.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847996078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
When Sarah surfs a wave off Waikiki Beach, the surfboard accidentally hits her in the head. She wakes up and finds herself facing a stray dog, Pupua, on a deserted beach. Pupua leads her to a village. The villagers hail her as Malama, a demigod, who according to legend would return to the island on the day of distress. War has broken out on the neighboring islands. Kamehameha, the lonely one, has won all the bloody battles and has established himself as king. One island remains to be taken and only Malama can save this island from blood shed. Forced to proved that she is Malama, Sarah battles, befriends and encounters many other Hawaiian myths and legends. In the process, she is taken on a journey between reality and fantasy.
The Soil Keepers
Author: Nance Klehm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578514710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578514710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Developments in Polynesian Ethnology
Author: Robert Borofsky
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Development in Polynesian Ethnology assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia by examining the debates and issues that shape the discipline today. What have anthropologists achieved? What concerns now dominate discussion? Where is Polynesian anthropology headed? In a series of provocative and original essays, leading scholars examine prehistory, social organization, socialization and character development, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art and aesthetics, and early contact. Together these essays show how history, anthropology, and archaeology have combined to give a broad understanding of Polynesian societies developing over time--how they represent a blend of modernity and tradition, continuity and change. This book is both an introduction to Polynesia for interested students and a thought-provoking synthesis for scholars charting new directions and posing possibilities for future research. Scholars outside Polynesian studies will find the perspectives it offers important and its comprehensive bibliography an invaluable resource.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Development in Polynesian Ethnology assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia by examining the debates and issues that shape the discipline today. What have anthropologists achieved? What concerns now dominate discussion? Where is Polynesian anthropology headed? In a series of provocative and original essays, leading scholars examine prehistory, social organization, socialization and character development, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art and aesthetics, and early contact. Together these essays show how history, anthropology, and archaeology have combined to give a broad understanding of Polynesian societies developing over time--how they represent a blend of modernity and tradition, continuity and change. This book is both an introduction to Polynesia for interested students and a thought-provoking synthesis for scholars charting new directions and posing possibilities for future research. Scholars outside Polynesian studies will find the perspectives it offers important and its comprehensive bibliography an invaluable resource.
Fishers' Knowledge in Fisheries Science and Management
Author: Nigel Haggan
Publisher: United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Drawing on a number of case studies from around the world, this publication considers how the local knowledge and practices of indigenous fishing communities are being used in collaboration with scientists, government managers and non-governmental organisations to establish effective frameworks for sustainable fisheries science and management. It seeks to contribute towards achieving the goal of establishing international responsibility for the ethical collection, preservation, dissemination and application of fishers' knowledge.
Publisher: United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Drawing on a number of case studies from around the world, this publication considers how the local knowledge and practices of indigenous fishing communities are being used in collaboration with scientists, government managers and non-governmental organisations to establish effective frameworks for sustainable fisheries science and management. It seeks to contribute towards achieving the goal of establishing international responsibility for the ethical collection, preservation, dissemination and application of fishers' knowledge.
Primitive Man as Philosopher
Author: Paul Radin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law
Author: Irene Watson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317938372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in Aboriginal people’s complex relationship with their ancestral lands. This is Raw Law: a natural system of obligations and benefits, flowing from an Aboriginal ontology. This book places Raw Law at the centre of an analysis of colonisation – thereby decentring the usual analytical tendency to privilege the dominant structures and concepts of Western law. From the perspective of Aboriginal law, colonisation was a violation of the code of political and social conduct embodied in Raw Law. Its effects were damaging. It forced Aboriginal peoples to violate their own principles of natural responsibility to self, community, country and future existence. But this book is not simply a work of mourning. Most profoundly, it is a celebration of the resilience of Aboriginal ways, and a call for these to be recognised as central in discussions of colonial and postcolonial legality. Written by an experienced legal practitioner, scholar and political activist, AboriginalPeoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law will be of interest to students and researchers of Indigenous Peoples Rights, International Law and Critical Legal Theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317938372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in Aboriginal people’s complex relationship with their ancestral lands. This is Raw Law: a natural system of obligations and benefits, flowing from an Aboriginal ontology. This book places Raw Law at the centre of an analysis of colonisation – thereby decentring the usual analytical tendency to privilege the dominant structures and concepts of Western law. From the perspective of Aboriginal law, colonisation was a violation of the code of political and social conduct embodied in Raw Law. Its effects were damaging. It forced Aboriginal peoples to violate their own principles of natural responsibility to self, community, country and future existence. But this book is not simply a work of mourning. Most profoundly, it is a celebration of the resilience of Aboriginal ways, and a call for these to be recognised as central in discussions of colonial and postcolonial legality. Written by an experienced legal practitioner, scholar and political activist, AboriginalPeoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law will be of interest to students and researchers of Indigenous Peoples Rights, International Law and Critical Legal Theory.
He Mo'olelo 'Aina
Author: Kepa Maly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692799543
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Haseko presents this Honouliuli study in an effort to advance the goal of educating the Honouliuli community about the land's history in order to preserve it. This book is a brief overview of a study that incorporates a wide range of historical literature describing Honouliuli Ahupua'a that has been gathered over the last 20 years by Kepa and Onaona Maly.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692799543
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Haseko presents this Honouliuli study in an effort to advance the goal of educating the Honouliuli community about the land's history in order to preserve it. This book is a brief overview of a study that incorporates a wide range of historical literature describing Honouliuli Ahupua'a that has been gathered over the last 20 years by Kepa and Onaona Maly.
Facing the Spears of Change
Author: Marie Alohalani Brown
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824858735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Facing the Spears of Change takes a close look at the extraordinary life of John Papa `Ī`ī. Over the years, `Ī`ī faced many personal and political changes and challenges in rapid succession, which he skillfully parried or seized, then used to fend off other attacks. He began serving in the household of Kamehameha I as an attendant in 1810, at the age of ten, and became highly familiar with the inner workings of the royal household. His early service took place in a time when ali`i nui (the highest-ranking Hawaiians) were considered divine and surrounded with strict kapu (sacred prohibitions); breaking a kapu pertaining to an ali`i meant death for the transgressor. He went on to become an influential statesman, privy to the shifting modes of governance adopted by the Hawaiian kingdom. `Ī`ī’s intelligence and his good standing with those he served resulted in a great degree of influence within the Hawaiian government, with his fellow Hawaiians, and with the missionaries residing in the Hawaiian Islands. As a privileged spectator and key participant, his published accounts of ali`i and his insights into early nineteenth-century Hawaiian cultural-religious practices are unsurpassed. In this groundbreaking work, Marie Alohalani Brown offers an elegantly written and compelling portrait of an important historical figure in nineteenth-century Hawai`i. Brown’s extensive archival research using Hawaiian and English language primary sources from the 1800s allows access to information which would be otherwise unknown but to a very small circle of researchers.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824858735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Facing the Spears of Change takes a close look at the extraordinary life of John Papa `Ī`ī. Over the years, `Ī`ī faced many personal and political changes and challenges in rapid succession, which he skillfully parried or seized, then used to fend off other attacks. He began serving in the household of Kamehameha I as an attendant in 1810, at the age of ten, and became highly familiar with the inner workings of the royal household. His early service took place in a time when ali`i nui (the highest-ranking Hawaiians) were considered divine and surrounded with strict kapu (sacred prohibitions); breaking a kapu pertaining to an ali`i meant death for the transgressor. He went on to become an influential statesman, privy to the shifting modes of governance adopted by the Hawaiian kingdom. `Ī`ī’s intelligence and his good standing with those he served resulted in a great degree of influence within the Hawaiian government, with his fellow Hawaiians, and with the missionaries residing in the Hawaiian Islands. As a privileged spectator and key participant, his published accounts of ali`i and his insights into early nineteenth-century Hawaiian cultural-religious practices are unsurpassed. In this groundbreaking work, Marie Alohalani Brown offers an elegantly written and compelling portrait of an important historical figure in nineteenth-century Hawai`i. Brown’s extensive archival research using Hawaiian and English language primary sources from the 1800s allows access to information which would be otherwise unknown but to a very small circle of researchers.
The Mid-Pacific Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific
Author: Antony Hooper
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192094222X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Throughout the South Pacific, notions of ‘culture’ and ‘development’ are very much alive—in political debate, the media, sermons, and endless discussions amongst villagers and the urban élites, even in policy reports. Often the terms are counterposed, and development along with ‘economic rationality’, ‘good governance’ and ‘progress’ is set against culture or ‘custom’, ‘tradition’ and ‘identity’. The decay of custom and impoverishment of culture are often seen as wrought by development, while failures of development are haunted by the notion that they are due, somehow, to the darker, irrational influences of culture. The problem is to resolve the contradictions between them so as to achieve the greater good—access to material goods, welfare and amenities, ‘modern life’—without the sacrifice of the ‘traditional’ values and institutions that provide material security and sustain diverse social identities. Resolution is sought in this book by a number of leading writers from the South Pacific including Langi Kavaliku, Epeli Hau’ofa, Marshall Sahlins, Malama Meleisea, Joeli Veitayaki, and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka. The volume is brought together for UNESCO by Antony Hooper, Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland. UNESCO experts include Richard Engelhardt, Langi Kavaliku, Russell Marshall, Malama Meleisea, Edna Tait and Mali Voi.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192094222X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Throughout the South Pacific, notions of ‘culture’ and ‘development’ are very much alive—in political debate, the media, sermons, and endless discussions amongst villagers and the urban élites, even in policy reports. Often the terms are counterposed, and development along with ‘economic rationality’, ‘good governance’ and ‘progress’ is set against culture or ‘custom’, ‘tradition’ and ‘identity’. The decay of custom and impoverishment of culture are often seen as wrought by development, while failures of development are haunted by the notion that they are due, somehow, to the darker, irrational influences of culture. The problem is to resolve the contradictions between them so as to achieve the greater good—access to material goods, welfare and amenities, ‘modern life’—without the sacrifice of the ‘traditional’ values and institutions that provide material security and sustain diverse social identities. Resolution is sought in this book by a number of leading writers from the South Pacific including Langi Kavaliku, Epeli Hau’ofa, Marshall Sahlins, Malama Meleisea, Joeli Veitayaki, and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka. The volume is brought together for UNESCO by Antony Hooper, Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland. UNESCO experts include Richard Engelhardt, Langi Kavaliku, Russell Marshall, Malama Meleisea, Edna Tait and Mali Voi.