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Kuaaina Kahiko - Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui (Hardcover)
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Kuaaina Kahiko - Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui (Hardcover)
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In early Hawai'i, kuaaina were the hinterlands inhabited by
kuaaina, 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'?ina 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'?ina Kahiko follows kama'?ina
archaeologist Patrick Vin- ton 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 Haleakal?.
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'?inana families fell
victim to unscrupulous land agents. But also told throughout the
book is the saga of Ka 'Ohana o Kahikinui, a grass-roots group of
Native Hawaiians who struggled to regain access to these Hawaiian
lands.
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