Ancestry of Experience - A Journey into Hawaiian Ways of Knowing

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, Leilani/ Leong Holmes
• Assisted by: Russell Leong (Editor), David K Yoo (Editor), David K. Yoo (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780824867720
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-6772-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacif; Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies; Intersections: Asian and Pacif; Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries