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A retelling of nine Hawaiian legends illustrating the importance of dreams and their interpretation in Hawaiian culture.
Moe'uhane, the Hawaiian word for dream, means "soul sleep." Hawaiians of old believed they communicated with 'auma-kua, their ancestral guardians, while sleeping, and this important relationship was sustained through dreaming. During "soul sleep," people received messages of gui…
A retelling of nine Hawaiian legends illustrating the importance of dreams and their interpretation in Hawaiian culture.
A retelling of nine Hawaiian legends illustrating the importance of dreams and their interpretation in Hawaiian culture.
From the Publisher: Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United States acts upon and dominates Hawai'i. Instead, Island World depicts the islands' press against the continent…
From the Publisher: Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United States acts upon and dominates Hawai'i. Instead, Island World depicts the islands' press against the continent…
In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers-Joseph Ho'ona'auao Kanepu'u (1824-ca. 1885) and Jo…
In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where--using Western standards--none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers--Joseph Ho'ona'auao Kānepu'u (1824-ca. 1885)…
Reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where - using Western standards - none is presumed to exist. The author examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers - Joseph Ho'ona'auao Kānepu'u (1824-ca.1885) and Joseph Moku'ōhai Poepoe (1852-1913) - to …
Noenoe K. Silva creates a model indigenous intellectual history of a culture where--using Western standards--none is presumed to exist by examining the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian language writers from the nineteenth-century whose prolific output across many genres created…
Paradise Remade
by Project Muse, Buck, Elizabeth Bentzel
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
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