Ancestral Places - Understanding Kanaka Geographies

Informationen zum Autor Katrina-Ann R. Kapa'anaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira is a Kanaka scholar. She was born on the island of O'ahu and raised on the islands of Maui and O'ahu. She is an associate professor of Hawaiian and the director of Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language within Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She earned dual Bachelor's degrees in Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies as well as a Master's and a PhD in geography. Klappentext Explores the deep connections that ancestral Kanaka (Native Hawaiians) enjoyed with their environment. It honours the mo'olelo (historical accounts) of the ancestral places of our kupuna (ancestors)! and reveals how these mo'olelo and our relationships with the 'aina (land) inform a Kanaka sense of place. Zusammenfassung Explores the deep connections that ancestral Kanaka (Native Hawaiians) enjoyed with their environment. It honours the mo'olelo (historical accounts) of the ancestral places of our kupuna (ancestors)! and reveals how these mo'olelo and our relationships with the 'aina (land) inform a Kanaka sense of place.

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Katrina-Ann R. Kapa'anaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira is a Kanaka scholar. She was born on the island of O'ahu and raised on the islands of Maui and O'ahu. She is an associate professor of Hawaiian and the director of Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language within Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She earned dual Bachelor's degrees in Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies as well as a Master's and a PhD in geography.

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• Authors: anaokalaokeola Nakoa, Katrina-Ann R Kapaaanaokalaaokeola Oliv, Katrina-Ann Kapaanaokalaokeola Oliveira, Katrina-Ann R Kapa'anaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira, Katrina-Ann R. Kapa Oliveira, Katrina-ann R. Kapa&apos Oliveira, Katrina-Ann R. Kapa'anaokalaok Oliveira, Katrina-ann R. Kapa'anaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780870716737
• ISBN: 978-0-87071-673-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Travel > Travel guides