The world and all the things upon it : native Hawaiian geographies of exploration / David A. Chang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, David A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography--American.

Discoveries in geography.

Explorers--Hawaii.

Explorers.

Hawaiians--Travel.

Hawaiians.

Geographical perception--Hawaii.

Geographical perception.

Hawaiians--Historiography.

Social conditions.

Travel.

Hawaii--History.

Hawaii.

History.

Hawaii--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xix, 320 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Summary:

What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they "discovered"? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism? Writing with verve, David A. Chang draws on the compelling words of long-ignored Hawaiian-language sources-stories, songs, chants, and political prose-to demonstrate how Native Hawaiian people worked to influence their metaphorical "place in the world." Chang's book is unique in examining travel, sexuality, spirituality, print culture, gender, labor, education, and race to shed tight on how constructions of global geography became a site through which Hawaiians, as well as their would-be colonizers, perceived and contested imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Looking Out from Hawai'i's Shore 1

The Exploration of the World Is the Inheritance of Native Hawaiians

2 Paddling Out to See 15

Direct Exploration by Kanaka in the Late Eighteenth Century

3 A New Religion from Kahiki 79

Christianity, Textuality, and Exploration, 1810-1832

4 The World and All the Tilings upon It 103

Geography Education and Textbooks in Hawai'i, 1831-1878

5 Hawaiian Indians and Black Kanakas 157

Racial Trajectories of Diasporic Kanaka Laborers

6 Bone of Our Bone 195

The Geography of Sacred Power, 1850s-1870s

7 "We Will Be Comparable to the Indian Peoples" 227

Recognizing Likeness between Kanaka and American Indians, 1832-1895.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modern Language Association Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Winner, 2016-17

Other Format:

Online version: Chang, David A., author. World and all the things upon it.

ISBN:

9780816699421

9780816699414

0816699410

0816699429

OCLC:

928613654

Publisher Number:

99967905348