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The world and all the things upon it : native Hawaiian geographies of exploration /
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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 light 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. -- from back cover. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 320 pages) |
| Premios: | Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best Subsequent Book, 2017. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452950310 1452950318 9781452950303 145295030X 0816699410 9780816699414 9780816699421 0816699429 9781452954417 1452954410 |