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Sacred claims : repatriation and living tradition / Greg Johnson.
Penn Museum Library DU624.65 .J65 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Greg, 1968-
- Series:
- Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
- Studies in religion and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawaiians--Funeral customs and rites.
- Hawaiians.
- Cemeteries--Hawaii.
- Cemeteries.
- Cultural property.
- Hawaii.
- Cultural property--Hawaii.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 208 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Sacred claims and religious acts
- Subjects, stories, and strategies
- Islands of practice, discourses of permanence
- Writing the law, speaking the sacred
- Tense negotiations : cultural affiliation and the limits of identity
- Ancestors before us : manifestations and metaphors of tradition in a Hawaiian dispute
- Religious voices and social borders
- Dead reckoning and living tradition : sources of power and authority in the divided present
- Repatriation, tradition, and the study of religion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813926612
- 0813926610
- 9780813926629
- 0813926629
- OCLC:
- 82772654
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