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Kua‘āina Kahiko - Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui
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In early Hawai‘i, kua‘āina were the hinterlands inhabited by
nā kua‘āina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less
desirable areas where much skill and hard work were required to
wrest a living from the lava landscapes. The ancient district of
Kahikinui in southeast Maui is such a kua‘āina and remains one
of the largest tracts of undeveloped land in the islands. Named
after Tahiti Nui in the Polynesian homeland, its thousands of
pristine acres house a treasure trove of archaeological
ruins—witnesses to the generations of Hawaiians who made this
land their home before it was abandoned in the late nineteenth
century. Kua‘āina Kahiko follows kama‘āina archaeologist
Patrick Vinton Kirch on a seventeen-year-long research odyssey to
rediscover the ancient patterns of life and land in Kahikinui.
Through painstaking archaeological survey and detailed excavations,
Kirch and his students uncovered thousands of previously
undocumented ruins of houses, trails, agricultural fields, shrines,
and temples. Kirch describes how, beginning in the early fifteenth
century, Native Hawaiians began to permanently inhabit the rocky
lands along the vast southern slope of Haleakalā. Eventually these
planters transformed Kahikinui into what has been called the
greatest continuous zone of dryland planting in the Hawaiian
Islands. He relates other fascinating aspects of life in ancient
Kahikinui, such as the capture and use of winter rains to create
small wet-farming zones, and decodes the complex system of heiau,
showing how the orientations of different temple sites provide
clues to the gods to whom they were dedicated. Kirch examines the
sweeping changes that transformed Kahikinui after European contact,
including how some maka'āinana families fell victim to
unscrupulous land agents. But also woven throughout the book is the
saga of Ka ‘Ohana o Kahikinui, a grass-roots group of Native
Hawaiians who successfully struggled to regain access to these
Hawaiian lands. Rich with anecdotes of Kirch’s personal
experiences over years of field research, Kua'āina Kahiko takes
the reader into the little-known world of the ancient kua‘āina.
General
Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2023 |
Authors: |
Patrick Vinton Kirch
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-9681-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-9681-5 |
Barcode: |
9780824896812 |
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