[PDF Download] Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai?i to Kahiki - Emalani Case
Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai?i to Kahiki
In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for K?naka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawai?i's shores. Kahiki is therefore both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection. Tracing physical, historical, intellectual, and spiritual journeys to and from Kahiki, Case frames it as a place of refuge and sanctuary, a place where ancient knowledge can constantly be made anew. It is in Kahiki, and in the sanctuary it creates, that today's K?naka Maoli can find safety and reprieve from the continued onslaught of settler colonial violence while confronting some of the uncomfortable and challenging realities of being Indigenous in Hawai?i, in the Pacific, and in the world.The book engages with Kahiki as a shifting term employed by K?naka Maoli to explain their lives and
Product details: Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai?i to Kahiki
Author : Emalani Case
Pages : 160 pages
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
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ISBN-10 : 082488681X
ISBN-13 : 9780824886813
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