Book
Children of the land: exchange and status in a Hawaiian community
Rutgers University Press • New Brunswick, N. J. • Published In 1985 • Pages:
By: Linnekin, Jocelyn.
Abstract
Linnekin examines the pattern of exchanges in food, labor, land, marriage, and adoption, in a rural Hawaiian taro-growing community. She argues that these exchanges-in-kind are markers of rural Hawaiian identity. Food and labor exchanges occur in the context of the LUAU, or feasting, which has it roots in the past. Property inheritance, marriage, and adoption constitute another set of related exchanges, which demarcate the boundary between community and the outside market economy. According to Linnekin, urban-based nationalist movements tend to reify Hawaiian culture in terms of taro-growing, special foods, such as POI, the extended family ('OHANA), an egalitarian ethic, love of the land, and feasting. Linnekin sets out to show how these elements relate to each other to constitute a Hawaiian way of life and community.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Polynesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field Date
- 1972-1982
- Coverage Date
- 1972-1982
- Coverage Place
- Keanae, Maui, Hawaii, United States
- Notes
- Jocelyn Linnekin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258) and index
- LCCN
- 83024673
- LCSH
- Hawaiians