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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Gift giving
- Status, role, and prestige
- Visiting and hospitality
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Prisons and jails
- Kinship
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1972-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Keanae, Maui, Hawaii, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jocelyn Linnekin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83024673
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hawaiians