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Ma‘i Lepera : Disease and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i by Kerri A Inglis; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Ma‘i Lepera attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawai‘i's history. It takes an unprecedented look at the Hansen's disease outbreak (1865–1900) almost exclusively from the perspective of “patients,” ninety percent of whom were Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian). Using traditional and nontraditional sources, published and unpublished, it tells the story of a disease, a society's reaction to it, and the consequences of the experience for Hawai‘i and its people.Over a span of thirty-four years more than five thousand people were sent to a leprosy settlement on the remote peninsula in north Moloka‘i traditionally known as Makanalua. Their story has seldom been told despite the hundreds of letters they wrote to families, friends, and the Board of Health, as well as to Hawaiian-language newspapers, detailing their concerns at the settlement as they struggled to retain their humanity in the face of ma‘i lepera. Many remained politically active and, at times, defiant, resisting authority and challenging policies. As much as they suffered, the Kānaka Maoli of Makanalua established new bonds and cared for one another in ways that have been largely overlooked in popular

Who reads Ma‘i Lepera : Disease and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i?

Author

Kerri A Inglis; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824836351

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Medical