Patrick Vinton Kirch
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824853457
- eISBN:
- 9780824868345
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824853457.003.0018
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter describes a re-engagement with Hawaiian archaeology through research efforts in Kahikinui, one of the twelve ancient districts (moku) of Maui. Some might have thought Kahikinui an odd ...
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This chapter describes a re-engagement with Hawaiian archaeology through research efforts in Kahikinui, one of the twelve ancient districts (moku) of Maui. Some might have thought Kahikinui an odd choice in which to investigate the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai‘i, as it is considered a kua‘āina, or “backwater” district (literally “back of the land”). Yet it proved to be the right place to investigate the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai‘i. Being ecologically marginal Kahikinui had not suffered from the effects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century land development; the archaeological landscape of an entire moku, or district, was intact. More importantly, the radical shifts in economic production, land tenure, religious organization, and social structure that accompanied the transition to archaic states would likely be reflected more clearly in such outlying kua‘āina lands than in the “salubrious core regions” frequented by the chiefs.Less
This chapter describes a re-engagement with Hawaiian archaeology through research efforts in Kahikinui, one of the twelve ancient districts (moku) of Maui. Some might have thought Kahikinui an odd choice in which to investigate the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai‘i, as it is considered a kua‘āina, or “backwater” district (literally “back of the land”). Yet it proved to be the right place to investigate the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai‘i. Being ecologically marginal Kahikinui had not suffered from the effects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century land development; the archaeological landscape of an entire moku, or district, was intact. More importantly, the radical shifts in economic production, land tenure, religious organization, and social structure that accompanied the transition to archaic states would likely be reflected more clearly in such outlying kua‘āina lands than in the “salubrious core regions” frequented by the chiefs.
Victor Bascara
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680894
- eISBN:
- 9781452948799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680894.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter focuses on possible linkages among the diverse institutional histories of the University of Hawai’i, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of the Philippines—all universities ...
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This chapter focuses on possible linkages among the diverse institutional histories of the University of Hawai’i, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of the Philippines—all universities founded under U.S. administration of island colonies, or colony-like possessions, between 1903 and 1908. It then provides a consideration of discursive formations from these universities which grapple with the meaning of the new imperial university—and of liberal education in particular—in the early years of three vastly separated institutions with potentially resonant concerns. The chapter also examines the implicit and explicit institutionalization of liberal education at these institutions by analyzing primary documents from the archives of each of the institutions, mainly via the genre of the general catalog and related university discourse.Less
This chapter focuses on possible linkages among the diverse institutional histories of the University of Hawai’i, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of the Philippines—all universities founded under U.S. administration of island colonies, or colony-like possessions, between 1903 and 1908. It then provides a consideration of discursive formations from these universities which grapple with the meaning of the new imperial university—and of liberal education in particular—in the early years of three vastly separated institutions with potentially resonant concerns. The chapter also examines the implicit and explicit institutionalization of liberal education at these institutions by analyzing primary documents from the archives of each of the institutions, mainly via the genre of the general catalog and related university discourse.
