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As Hawaiians continue to recover their language and culture, the voices of __kupuna__ (elders) are heard once again in urban and rural settings, both in Hawai‘i and elsewhere. How do __kupuna__ create knowledge and “tell” history? What do they tell us about being Hawaiian? Adopted by a Midwestern couple in the 1950s as an infant, Leilani Holmes spent much of her early life in settings that offered no clues about her Hawaiian past—images of which continued to haunt her even as she completed a master’s thesis on Hawaiian music and identity in southern California. __Ancestry of Experience__ documents Holmes’ quest to reclaim and understand her own origin story. Holmes writes in two different and at times incongruent voices—one describing the search for her genealogy, the other critiquing Western epistemologies she encounters along the way. In the course of her journey, she finds that Hawaiian oral tradition links identity to the land __(‘aina)__ through ancestry, while traditional, scholarly theories of knowing (particularly political economy and the discourse of the invention of tradition) textually obliterate land and ancestry. In interviews with __kupuna,__ Holmes learns of the con

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Author

Leilani Holmes (editor); Russell Leong (editor); David K. Yoo (editor)

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824837723

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Humanities