http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7998 Search the Channel search http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/10125/13413 Title: Anthroplogy at UHManoa: Some Historical Footnotes<br/><br/>Author(s): Ogan, Eugene Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:40:25 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7581 Title: Tripp tapes 7-9<br/><br/>Description: Linda Tripp's recorded phone calls, primarily with Monica Lewinsky. Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:00:13 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7345 Title: Tripp tapes 1 to 6<br/><br/>Description: Linda Tripp's recorded phone calls, primarily with Monica Lewinsky Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:54:09 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7159 Title: Resistance against being formulated as cultural Other<br/><br/>Author(s): Fukuda, Chie<br/><br/>Abstract: see the abstract in the article Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7111 Title: Variability in poi pounders from Kaua'i island, Hawai'i<br/><br/>Author(s): McElroy, Windy Keala<br/><br/>Abstract: Hawaiian poi pounders are unique artifacts which have received inadequate attention from the archaeological community. Three varieties of poi pounders are recognized today: the common knobbed form, ring pounders, and stirrup pounders. These artifacts have never been systematically analyzed, and a great deal of variability exists within the three categories. This research utilizes paradigmatic classification to examine stylistic variability in poi pounder morphology. The seriation method is used to illuminate patterns of interaction and transmission through time and space among Hawaiian groups. Functional analyses are carried out to help explain processes of selection and interaction between poi pounders and the environment. The spatial extent of this research is limited to the island of Kauaʻi, which is historically known for its distinctive poi pounder forms.<br/><br/>Description: 11, 121 leaves Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7088 Title: Miss India USA 2001: Flexible Practices, Creative Consumption, and Transnationality in Indian America<br/><br/>Author(s): Vora, Kalindi<br/><br/>Abstract: In Miss India USA, an event that represents Indian ethnicity as imagined by the mainstream Indian community, we can find a representation of the true dynamic processes of self-definition that are occurring in Indian America. By looking for evidence that the 'ideal' of Miss India USA is a construction based on the interests of what turns out to be only one voice among many in the community, we can start to look for evidence of other voices in the pageant. These are revealed in the ways that contestants fail to meet the ideal of 'Miss India USA' and instead perform other versions of Indian identity on stage. This thesis argues that discussions of the transnational Indian community as a diaspora homogenize it in a way that hides alternate forms of Indian identity that themselves share transnational affiliations besides those of the mainstream community highlighted by the notion of 'diaspora.' Miss India USA reveals that individuals in diaspora utilize transnational affiliations to create a multiplicity of identities that can only be understood in the context of both these particular affiliations and the locality of the individual. New enunciations of race and ethnicity in the context of America are found in Miss India USA, as are practices of flexible citizenship by contestants who wish to use their cultural capital of 'Indian-ness' to access transnational career opportunities. This thesis argues that by recognizing diaspora as constituted by multiple practices of creativity and flexibility with both ideological and material capital, the nature of events like Miss India USA 2001 as sites of multiple Indian identities and the transnational ties that constitute them can be acknowledged as part of a diaspora.<br/><br/>Description: vii 138 leaves Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7062 Title: The Way of Choju: Consuming Longevity in a Rural Japanese Town<br/><br/>Author(s): Busch, Jessica<br/><br/>Abstract: This thesis reviews the literature on the anthropology and biology of aging, Japanese health cosmology, and self-medication and analyzes the findings from a study investigating the perceptions on diet, health, and longevity of rural Japanese elderly living in southwestern Japan. A biocultural theoretical perspective is used to understand the relationship between culture, identity, tradition, and longevity. To rural elderly Japanese, health is a matter of maintaining balance through diet and lifestyle, while disease is diagnosed and treated by physicians and biomedical pharmaceuticals. Traditional Japanese foods have been shown to be longevity-enhancing, although Okinawans, who have the greatest life expectancy of Japanese, do not eat a traditional Japanese diet. This disparity is reconciled by the adopted of a number of foods from Okinawa, such as nigagori. The bioscientific literature on some foods listed by informants as good for longevity is analyzed and linked to the literature on cultural identity and nationalism. Consuming traditional Japanese foods for longevity allows Japanese to participate in their cultural identity while at the same time, eating the biologically best foods for health and longevity.<br/><br/>Description: viii, 163 leaves Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/5487 Title: Donahue<br/><br/>Description: Part of an episode of the Donahue-Posner call-in show. The subject of this show is sexual harassment. Phil Donahue and Vladimir Posner are the hosts. The guest expert is Debbie Brake, a representative of an organization devoted to advancing women's rights. Brake is participating via video feed. The excerpt begins at the end of a phone conversation with a caller from New York. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:15:39 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1252 Title: Mai Pa'a I Ka Leo: Historical voice in Hawaiian primary materials, looking forward and listening back<br/><br/>Author(s): Nogelmeier, Marvin Puakea<br/><br/>Abstract: This dissertation explores a unique body of historical writings published in the native-language newspapers of the Hawaiian kingdom during the 19th century and examines the incorporation of these materials into contemporary knowledge. Scholars of the 20th century have translated a fraction of the historical material, reorganized its contents and published those portions as reference texts on Hawaiian history, culture and ethnography. These English presentations, along with other translated texts have become an English-language canon of Hawaiian reference material that is widely used today. The canon of translated texts is problematic in that it alters the works of the original authors, recasting important auto-representational writings by Hawaiians of the 19th century into a modern Western framework. General reliance upon these translated texts has fostered a level of authority for the canon texts similar to that of primary source material. Such authority and reliance have in many ways eclipsed the Hawaiian authors' original works and have obscured the larger corpus of published writings from the period. General acceptance of the sufficiency of the translated works, a dearth of access tools and few fluent readers of Hawaiian has resulted in much of the archive of historical material remaining unutilized and largely inaccessible to date. However, the impetus of Hawaiian language renewal efforts and more recent Hawaiian scholarship has brought new attention to this body of writings, and such awareness is generating new efforts to rearticulate this neglected resource into the production of knowledge, now and in the future. Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1251 Title: The evolution of competition and cooperation in Fijian prehistory: Archaeological research in the Sigatoka Valley, Fiji<br/><br/>Author(s): Field, Julie S.<br/><br/>Abstract: This dissertation explores the emergence and consequences of competitive and cooperative strategies in Fijian prehistory. The Sigatoka Valley, located in southwestern Viti Levu, is the subject of a series of geographical, environmental, and archaeological analyses. Using GIS-based analyses, the effects of environmental fluctuations on agricultural productivity (i.e., the EI Nino Southern Oscillation [ENSO], and also the transition between the Little Climatic Optimum [LCO] and Little Ice Age [LIA]) are reconstructed and used to predict zones of low-yields and episodic shortfalls. These results indicate that the Sigatoka Valley was both spatially and temporally variable in terms of agricultural productivity and predictability. In the context of an evolutionary ecology-based model of competition and cooperation, this environment encouraged the development of conflict and defensive habitation strategies between human groups. The results of environmental analyses are also compared to the archaeological record, and used to determine the presence of three modes of habitation/subsistence: territorial strongholds, remote refuges, and agricultural production sites. Archaeological testing of these classes in tandem with GIS-based environmental research indicate that the Sigatoka Valley was initially occupied between Cal BC 20 - Cal AD 80, in association with dense and predictable resources. Fortifications that utilized natural topography, and also remote refuges, were established ca. AD 700, and remained in use throughout the prehistoric period. Environmental refuges associated with the effects of the LCO/LIA transition were established ca. AD 1300-1500. Constructed fortifications that utilized an annular ditch, and which were located in the valley bottom, appeared ca. AD 1700 - 1850. The chronology of habitation/subsistence strategies is also compared to landtenure and archaeological data (e.g., land-holdings of yavusa, and also evidence for unique artifacts and valley-wide exchange). These data suggest particular historical trajectories in the Sigatoka delta and highlands, and also varying frequencies of competition and cooperation in prehistory. In sum, this dissertation identifies interaction between humans and their environment as the fundamental relationship that conditioned change in prehistoric Fiji. Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT