Return to Kahiki - Native Hawaiians in Oceania

An important new analysis of Native Hawaiian efforts to construct relationships with other Oceanic peoples as missionaries, diplomats, and tourists.

List of contents

Introduction: Mai Kahiki Mai: out from Kahiki; 1. Ke Ao a me Ka P¿: post-millennial thought and Kanaka Foreign Mission work; 2. Among the wild dogs: negotiating the boundaries of Hawaiian Christianity; 3. A kindred people: Hawaiian diplomacy in S¿moa, 1887; 4. The Hawaiian model: imagining the future of Oceania; 5. 'There is nothing that separates us': John T. Baker and the Pan-Oceanic L¿hui; 6. Makä¿inana or servants of the dollar? Oceanic and capialist values; Conclusion: the return to Kahiki.

About the author

Kealani Cook is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi, West Oʻahu. He is a Kānaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian raised in Waimea, Hawaiʻi Island.

Summary

Most histories of interactions between different peoples/nations in Oceania tend to focus on relationships between Islanders and empires. This important new study instead unpacks the history of the connections between different groups of Pacific Islanders, focusing on Hawai?i both before and after annexation by the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Kealani Cook, COOK KEALANI
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781316646991
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64699-1
• No. of pages: 269
• Series: Studies in North American Indian History; Studies in North American Indi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Hawaii, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural history, Australasian & Pacific history, History of the Americas, Relating to Native American people, Australasian and Pacific history, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Hawaiian Islands, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, Hawaii / Hawaiʻi (State of)