Paradise remade : the politics of culture and history in Hawaiʻi /

This is a book about the politics of competing cultures and myths in a colonized nation. Relying on Althusserian Marxist theory, Elizabeth Buck considers the transformation of Hawaiian culture, with a focus on the indigenous population rather than on the colonizers. In Paradise Remade, the author re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buck, Elizabeth Bentzel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Hawaiians > Social life and customs.
Hawaiians > History.
Acculturation > Case studies.
Hula (Dance)
Hula-hula (Danse)
Hawaïens > Mœurs et coutumes.
Hawaïens > Histoire.
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Acculturation
Hawaiians
Hawaiians > Social life and customs
Historiography
Kulturwandel
Sozialer Wandel
Cultuurverandering.
Hawaii > Historiography.
Hawaii > Historiographie.
Hawaii
Acculturation > Case studies
Hawaii > Historiography
Hawaiians > History
Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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