Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence is a pathbreaking examination of the contact encounter in Hawaii from the perspective of Hawaiian women. Jocelyn Linnekin offers a reconstruction of Hawaiian women's authority and status before contact with the West and examines changes in their cultural valuation and social position during the first century of Western contact. Through a detailed analysis of women's roles in exchange, production, kinship, and politics during the political and economic transformations of the nineteenth century, Linnekin challenges the view that Polynesian women were doomed to a peripheral status by the ritual logic of pollution. She demonstrates how Hawaiian women maintained their position as points of access to land and power, while frequently resisting the constraints of the tabu system as well as later Western-influenced attempts to abridge their authority. This book is a unique and important contribution to the scholarship on Hawaiian history as well as to the growing literature on women and colonialism and women and social stratification. It will appeal to scholars and students who work in the areas of gender studies, social stratification, cultural change, Oceania, and historical anthropology.

Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence: Rank, Gender, and Colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands (Women And Culture Series)

History

Linnekin, Jocelyn

Americas

University of Michigan Press

A study of Hawaiian women's cultural valuation and social position in the first century of Western contact

Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence: Rank, Gender, and Colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands (Women and Culture Series)

Univ of Michigan Pr

'Children of the land' is a translation of the word kama'aina, which means old-timer, a long-time resident of a place. This book describes a Hawaiian community of kama'aina, of Hawaiians who still reside on the land of their ancestors. It's a study of continuity and change in a Hawaiian-American community widely perceived as traditional. The author bases her study of field work in Keanae, a rural village on Maui and addresses a paradox: the persistence of tradition in the most acculturated society in Polynesia.

Children of the Land: Exchange and Status in a Hawaiian Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Rutgers Univ Pr

Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific

Poyer, Lin

Univ of Hawaii Pr

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