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Ma'i Lepera - A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii (Hardcover, New)
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Ma'i Lepera - A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii (Hardcover, New)
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Ma'i Lepera attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant
moment in Hawai'i's history. It takes an unprecedented look at the
Hansen's disease outbreak (1865-1900) almost exclusively from the
perspective of "patients," ninety percent of whom were Kanaka Maoli
(Native Hawaiian). Using traditional and non-traditional sources,
published and unpublished, it tells the story of a disease, a
society's reaction to it, and the consequences of the experience
for Hawai'i and its people. Over a span of thirty-four years more
than five thousand people were sent to a leprosy settlement on the
remote peninsula in north Moloka'i traditionally known as
Makanalua. Their story has seldom been told despite the hundreds of
letters they wrote to families, friends, and the Board of Health,
as well as to Hawaiian-language newspapers, detailing their
concerns at the settlement as they struggled to retain their
humanity in the face of ma'i lepera. Many remained politically
active and, at times, defiant, resisting authority and challenging
policies. As much as they suffered, the Kanaka Maoli of Makanalua
established new bonds and cared for one another in ways that have
been largely overlooked in popular histories describing leprosy in
Hawai'i. Although Ma'i Lepera is primarily a social history of
disease and medicine, it offers compelling evidence of how leprosy
and its treatment altered Hawaiian perceptions and identities. It
changed how Kanaka Maoli viewed themselves: By the end of the
nineteenth century, the "diseased" had become a cultural "other" to
the healthy Hawaiian. Moreover, it reinforced colonial ideology and
furthered the use of both biomedical practices and disease as tools
of colonisation. Ma'i Lepera will be of significant interest to
students and scholars of Hawai'i and medical history and historical
and medical anthropology. Given its accessible style, this book
will also appeal to general readers who wish to know more about the
Kanaka Maoli who contracted leprosy-their connectedness to each
another, their families, their islands, and their nation-and how
leprosy came to affect those connections and their lives.
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