Book
Sacred queens and women of consequence: rank, gender, and colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands
University of Michigan Press • Ann Arbor • Published In 1990 • Pages: xxiv, 276
By: Linnekin, Jocelyn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is essentially an account of land relations and the status of women in the 1850s, based on the analysis of land records and other ethnohistorical materials. 'The Great Māhele, the land division of 1846-55, set the stage for massive land alienation among Hawaiians; dramatic changes took place in Hawaiian communities in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a period of progressive dispossession and proletarianization' (p. xvii). One of the changes that took place at this time was an apparent shift in the inheritance pattern which increasingly allowed women to hold land during the mid-nineteenth century. The above and other gender related topic form the major portion of this monograph.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Felted and other non-interworked fabrics
- Real property
- Inheritance
- External trade
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Classes
- Household
- Extended families
- Chief executive
- Avoidance and taboo
- Gender roles and issues
- 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-nineteenth 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
- Jocelyn Linnekin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89020618
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hawaiians