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Author Chang, David A., author.

Title The world and all the things upon it : native Hawaiian geographies of exploration / David A. Chang
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 320 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Making Native Hawaiian Global Geographies -- 1 Looking Out from Hawai.i's Shore: The Exploration of the World Is the Inheritance of Native Hawaiians -- 2 Paddling Out to See: Direct Exploration by Kanaka in the Late Eighteenth Century -- 3 A New Religion from Kahiki: Christianity, Textuality, and Exploration, 1820- 1832 -- 4 The World and All the Things upon It: Geography Education and Textbooks in Hawai.i, 1831-1878 -- 5 Hawaiian Indians and Black Kanakas: Racial Trajectories of Diasporic Kanaka Laborers -- 6 Bone of Our Bone: The Geography of Sacred Power, 1850s-1870s -- 7 "We Will Be Comparable to the Indian Peoples": Recognizing Likeness between Kanaka and American Indians, 1832-1895 -- Epilogue: Genealogies of the Present in Occupied Hawai'i -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- R -- T -- V -- Z
Summary What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they "discovered"? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism? Writing with verve, David A. Chang draws on the compelling words of long-ignored Hawaiian-language sources - stories, songs, chants, and political prose - to demonstrate how Native Hawaiian people worked to influence their metaphorical "place in the world." Chang's book is unique in examining travel, sexuality, spirituality, print culture, gender, labor, education, and race to shed light on how constructions of global geography became a site through which Hawaiians, as well as their would-be colonizers, perceived and contested imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism. -- from back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2020)
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best Subsequent Book, 2017
Subject Discoveries in geography -- American
Explorers -- Hawaii
Hawaiians -- Travel
Geographical perception -- Hawaii
Hawaiians -- Historiography
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TRAVEL -- Budget.
TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Discoveries in geography -- American.
Explorers.
Geographical perception.
Hawaiians -- Historiography.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT Hawaii -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059349
Hawaii -- Social conditions
Subject Hawaii.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016011913
ISBN 9781452950310
1452950318
9781452950303
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0816699410
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9781452954417
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