Ancestry of Experience - A Journey into Hawaiian Ways of Knowing

Informationen zum Autor Leilani Holmes is a retired instructor in sociology at Grossmont Community College in El Cajon! California. Klappentext Adopted by a Midwestern couple in the 1950s as an infant, Leilani Holmes spent much of her early life in settings that offered no clues about her Hawaiian past, images of which continued to haunt her even as she completed a master's thesis on Hawaiian music and identity in southern California. Ancestry of Experience documents Holmes quest to reclaim and understand her own origin story. Zusammenfassung Adopted by a Midwestern couple in the 1950s as an infant! Leilani Holmes spent much of her early life in settings that offered no clues about her Hawaiian past! images of which continued to haunt her even as she completed a master's thesis on Hawaiian music and identity in southern California. Ancestry of Experience documents Holmes quest to reclaim and understand her own origin story.

Product details

• Authors: Leilani Holmes
• Assisted by: Russell Leong (Editor), David K Yoo (Editor), David K. Yoo (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780824831295
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3129-5
• Series: Intersections; Intersections: Asian and Pacif
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries