Book
Paradise remade: the politics of culture and history in Hawai'i
Temple University Press • Philadelphia • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Buck, Elizabeth Bentzel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the politics of Hawaiian history using concepts from various theories of social formation and culture change. Buck's analysis '…couples Marxist-informed concepts of social formation, ideology, and forms of symbolic representation with poststructuralist conceptualizations of the power of linguistic practices and how power in terms of social relationships, knowledge, and identities are shaped by discursive regimes' (p. 17). To illustrate these concepts the author uses the changing historical contexts of the production, practice, and meaning of chant, HULA, and Hawaiian music to offer a way of reading the history of Hawaii. Buck states that long before Cook's arrival in the islands '…Hawaiian chant and HULA had been changing as the economic, political, and ideological structures of the islands changed; it is still developing as each new wave of outside cultural and social influence reaches the islands and as relationships of power are reformed. By looking at the ways chant, HULA, and contemporary Hawaiian music have been variously used and discursively constituted by different groups and institutions over time, music emerges as an important arena of struggle -- a site where the 'politics of culture' were engaged in the past and continue to be contested in the present' (p. 17).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural identity and pride
- Real property
- Music
- Dance
- Musical and theatrical productions
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Chief executive
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hawaiians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late eighteenth - twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hawaiian Islands, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Elizabeth Buck
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-226)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92000310
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hawaiians