Book
Native land and foreign desires: pejea la e pono ai?
Bishop Museum Press • Honolulu • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Kame'eleihiwa, Lilikalā.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The 1848 privatization of land known as the MAHELE was the deathblow to traditional Hawaiian society, according to the author, Kame'eleihiwa. Once in the private hands of capital-poor or indebted families the land was easily bought by wealthier foreigners, who had imposed on the government the rights of noncitizens to own land. Kame'eleihiwa discusses the gradual process in which foreign missionaries gained the confidence of the king, control of the government, and ownership of land; writing the new constitution and property laws, as well. In the traditional land tenure system high chiefs (ALI'I NUI) acted as stewards (MALAMA) to the land and all land was returned to the king for reallocation when the chief died. However, this system began to unravel with the weakening of the king and the chiefs began to pass on their holdings to their heirs. No doubt, the greatest blow to Haiwaiian way of life was the loss of a two-thirds of the population in the first 50 years of contact.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Special unions and marriages
- Chief executive
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1798-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hawaii
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa
- Includes bibliographical references (392-405) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91073875
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hawaiians