Paradise remade : the politics of culture and history in Hawai'i / Elizabeth Buck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buck, Elizabeth Bentzel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawaiians--Social life and customs.

Hawaiians.

Hawaiians--History.

Acculturation--Case studies.

Acculturation.

Hula (Dance).

Hawaii--Historiography.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a book about the politics of competing cultures and myths in a colonized nation. Elizabeth Buck considers the transformation of Hawaiian culture focusing on the indigenous population rather than on the colonizers. She describes how Hawaii's established religious, social, political, and economic relationships have changed in the past 200 years as a result of Western imperialism. Her account is particularly timely in light of the current Hawaiian demands for sovereignty 100 years after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893.Buck examines the social transformation Hawaii fro

Contents:

Contents; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Thinking about Hawaiian History; Chapter Three: Hawai'i before Contact with the West; Chapter Four: Western Penetration and Structural Transformation; Chapter Five: Transformations in Ideological Representations: Chant and Hula; Chapter Six: Transformations in Language and Power; Chapter Seven: Contending Representations of Hawaiian Culture; Notes; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-226) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439906088

1439906084

OCLC:

646068203

Publisher Number:

heb40070 hdl