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Culture summaryessay 2003 • Linnekin, Jocelyn
Hawaiians • Oceania > Polynesia
This is a culture summary of the original inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands . Information is presented on major aspects of Hawaiian culture....Sacred queens and women of consequenceBook 1990 • Linnekin, Jocelyn
Hawaiians • Oceania > Polynesia
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 ali...Children of the landBook 1985 • Linnekin, Jocelyn
Hawaiians • Oceania > Polynesia
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...