Defiant Indigeneity : The Politics of Hawaiian Performance /

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" ... Theorizes Indigeneity as a performative process, challenging the notion that it can be understood in terms of a prescribed set of unchanging cultural signs. ... Indigenous identity is made up of shared community understandings about belonging that is performed and articulated in multiple...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Teves, Stephanie N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hawaiians > Social life and customs.
Hawaiians > Social conditions.
Hawaiians > Government relations.
Hawaiians > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:" ... Theorizes Indigeneity as a performative process, challenging the notion that it can be understood in terms of a prescribed set of unchanging cultural signs. ... Indigenous identity is made up of shared community understandings about belonging that is performed and articulated in multiple settings and contexts. For Kanaka Maoli people, Teves shows that Indigeneity is represented and articulated through the idea of "aloha," a concept that is at once the most significant and most misunderstood word in the Hawaiian lexicon"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469640570

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