Hawaii Books

Includes Melpa Land Tenure - Rules & Processes, Land Tenure in the Woleai; on Kapingamarangi; Landholding on Namu Atoll, Marshall Islands; in the Ellice Islands; Tamana Island, Gilbert Islands; Case of Plamerson Atoll; Pacific Land Tenure in a Nutshell

The autor tells us the role of learning styles in learning a second language. It will be of great use to E.L.T professionals.

From back cover:

"Hawai'i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of ethnic conflict today. Pacific Island chiefdoms colonized by the United States and England respectively, the islands' indigenous populations were forced to share resources with a small colonizing elite and growing numbers of workers imported from South and East Asia. Both societies had long traditions of chiefly power exercised through reciprocity and descent; both were integrated into the plantation complex in the 19th century. Colonial authorities, however, constructed vastly different legal relationships with the indigenous peoples in each setting, and policy toward imported workers also differed in arrangements around land tenure and political participation. The legacies of these colonial arrangements are at the roots of the current crisis in both places.

Focusing on the intimate relationship between law, culture, and the production of social knowledge, these essays re-center law in social theory. The authors analyze the transitions from chiefdom to capitalism, colonizers' racial and governmental ideologies, land and labor policies, and contemporary efforts to recuperate indigenous culture and assert or maintain indigenous sovereignty. Speaking to Fijian and Hawaiian circumstances, this volume illuminates the role of legal and archival practice in constructing ethnic and political identities and producing colonial and anthropological knowledge."

Chapters include:

* A Chief Does Not Rule Land; He Rules People (Luganda Proverb) [J. Collier]
* Gordon Was No Amateur: Imperial Legal Strategies in the Colonization of Fiji
* Talking Back to Law and Empire: Hula in Hawaiian-Language Literature in 18861
* Law and Identity in an American Colony
* Promised Lands: From Colonial Lawgiving to Postcolonial Takeovers in Fiji
* Law as Object
* Ku'e and Ku'oko'a: History, Law, and other Faiths

This book was first privately printed in 1923 by Cross-Roads Studios in Honolulu. It is a fabulous collection of poems devoted to Hawaii as seen through the eyes of a visitor. Even non-poetry readers will enjoy the simply written verse which evokes a time and place which some think is lost forever. Blanding expresses his love for Hawaii in a most endearing manner in this book. To find out more about Don Blanding, visit www.don-blanding.com

I have been looking for this book for a while. I had read a library copy of it but want my own copy for some reaearch I am doing on the impact of the Hawaiians in the PNW. The book was easily ordered, and on my doorstep within a few days!

Thanks so much!

John Salisbury

Ishikawa Jun is an author largely unknown in the west, and it is regrettable that his anti-war literature has gone mostly unnoticed outside of Japan. From Mars' Song, a blistering attack of a "war without wisdom" to the Legend of Gold, a snapshot of the dreams and disappointments in the immediate post-war period, and finally the Raptor, a surreal look at the new peace in post-Occupation Japan, this collection of stories is a penetrating look at a controversial and tumultuous period in modern Japanese history.

Discussion of literature in wartime and immediate post-war Japan often centers on figures such as Kawabata and Mishima, but Ishikawa's gift for combining brazenness with subtlety added to his uncompromising resistance to the Japanese war machine makes his tales important additions to the canon of Japanese literature.

"The Legend of the Kukui Nut" is a beautifully illustrated children's book about a Hawaiian fable that explores the meaning of hope, faith, love, and compassion. The quest undertaken by the girl Melika is a ritual journey through darkness and trials from the island of Lani to the dark island of Honua and back. When Chief Makua chooses her to make this journey, he gives her a lamp and a bag of kukui nuts for oil and a spark to light the lamp. He tells her to always keep her lamp lit and never to leave it behind, then say "Aloha." Although Melika is frightened and faces many challenges on her dark journey, she learns to follow a way of caring for others that feeds the light she carries. "The Legend of the Kukui Nut" is a children's classic, beautifully presented in this attractive book.

my grandson, age five, loves this book and wants to have it reread
nightly.

Although this book was hard to read at times, I feel like I am a better person for having read it. Father Damien is truely a remarkable individual and his Christlike devotion to the lepers of Hawaii is what made this book so compelling for me. I loved reading about this wonderful,humble man. He loved these people with all his heart and soul. He absolutely changed everything for them, and he not only built churches for them with his bare hands, but he also was their doctor their priest and their friend. When no one would go to the lepers and give them the just the bare necissities of life, Father Damien was a willing and humble servant. I loved this book and know you will come away from reading it, amazed as I was at what this great man accomplished in his short life.

A collection of warm and enthusiastic words of wisdom from 40 residents of Hawaii. Each inspiring story is told in the first-person, usually in a uniquely Hawaiian form of "pidgin" English and accompanied by one or more wonderful black and white photos of the speaker. The individuals you will meet are "ordinary people" with extraordinary character and strength; people of widely differing life experiences and yet each displays a passion for life and an inner peace which is best described as the Aloha spirit.