Native Men Remade Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i

Name: Native Men Remade Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i
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ISBN: 9780822343219

ISBN-10: 0822343215

ISBN-13: 9780822343219

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ty P. KÄwika Tengan

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Many indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s a group of Native men on the island of Maui responded by refashioning and reasserting their masculine identities in a group called the Hale Mua (the "Men's House"). As a member and an ethnographer, Ty P. Kawika Tengan analyzes how its mostly middle-aged, middle-class, and mixed-race members assert a warrior masculinity through practices including martial arts, wood-carving, and cultural…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Lele i Ka Po



Engagements with Modernity



Re-membering Nationhood and Koa at the Temple of State



Pu'ukohola: At the Mound of the Whale



Ka i Mua-Cast into the Men's House



Narrating Kanaka: Talk Story, Place, and Identity


Conclusion: The Journeys of Hawaiian Men



'Awa Talk Story at Pani, 2005


Notes


Glossary of Hawaiian Words


References


Index