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Paradise Remade: The Politics of Culture and History in Hawaii
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by Elizabeth Bentzel Buck
Sales Rank: 1059440
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
Published by: Temple University Press February 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1566392004
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1566392006
Book Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 13.4 ounces
From Library Journal
Buck proposes her work, based on her dissertation (Univ. of Hawaii), as an "alternative among other recent narratives that challenge the traditional accounts" of Hawaiian history. She attempts this by applying "Marxist-informed" theories to Hawaiian history. In particular, she focuses on changes in Hawaiian chant, hula, and music as a means of interpreting Hawaiian history. She covers Hawaiian prehistory and the impact of Western contact, missionaries, and the sandalwood, whaling, and sugar industries on Hawaiian society--and on music in particular. Apart from some of the discussion of chant and hula, this material is better treated elsewhere. Buck discusses Hawaiian music emphasizing the impact of tourism and the recording industry. She closes by looking at the way in which Hawaiian chant, hula, and music have become symbols of modern Hawaiian political awareness and ethnic pride. For libraries with large Pacific island collections. --W.L. Wuerch, Micronesian Area Research Center, Univ. of Guam
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
This is a book about the politics of competing cultures and myths in a colonized nation. Elizabeth Buck considers the transformation of Hawaiian culture focusing on the indigenous population rather than on the colonizers. She describes how Hawaii's established religious, social, political, and economic relationships have changed in the past 200 years as a result of Western imperialism. Her account is particularly timely in light of the current Hawaiian demands for sovereignty 100 years after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893.
Buck looks at the social transformation Hawaii from a complex hierarchical, oral society to an American state dominated by corporate tourism and its myths of paradise. She pays particular attention to the ways contemporary Hawaiians are challenging the use of their traditions as the basis for exoticized entertainment.
Buck demonstrates that sacred chants and hula were an integral part of Hawaiian social life; as the repository of the people's historical memory, chants and hula practices played a vital role in maintaining the links between religious, political, and economic relationships. Tracing the ways in which Hawaiian culture has been variously suppressed and constructed by Western explorers, New England missionaries, the tourist industry, ethnomusicologists, and contemporary Hawaiians, Buck offers a fascinating "rereading" of Hawaiian history.
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