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Paradise Remade - The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i (Paperback)
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Paradise Remade - The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i (Paperback)
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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 examines 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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