E HOʻOKOHUKOHU I NĀ LIMU O HAWAIʻI: DEVELOPING METHODOLOGIES FOR LIMU IDENTIFICATION AND SOCIO- CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE ENSHROUDED IN THE NŪPEPA HAWAIʻI
E HOʻOKOHUKOHU I NĀ LIMU O HAWAIʻI: DEVELOPING METHODOLOGIES FOR LIMU IDENTIFICATION AND SOCIO- CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE ENSHROUDED IN THE NŪPEPA HAWAIʻI
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2022
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Ornelas, Brianna
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Smith, Celia
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Botany
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Despite the spiritual, social and nutritional uses, as well as the ecological value that native algae, or limu, have in Hawaiʻi, only 30 known modern species names (Linnaean binomials) are accepted as tied to the thousand-year-old Hawaiian names for the same plants. Past syntheses documented over 200 Hawaiian names of limu but those studies lack several levels of confirmation. Thus, despite the diversity of research on limu across molecular, taxonomic and ecological perspectives, very little work has focused on the deep reservoir of traditional knowledge. More specifically no studies have approached this topic via the recently published database of nūpepa from the last century. The goal of this research was to explore the content of the historic Hawaiian nūpepa, or newspapers, in the online Papakilo database for Hawaiian names of limu and other traditional limu knowledge. Because of the novelty of this project, new methods were created and tested to survey, organize, and analyze the vast collection of nūpepa information. Articles that were deemed relevant to the thesis questions were archived into a Google Suite database created specifically for this project. Out of the hundreds of articles that were screened in the Nūpepa, 82 were selected as being of interest, archived in the database and categorized into five groups based on content. Four articles were translated in depth that described limu inoa, locations, and uses. One particular limu inoa, limu lipuʻupuʻu is currently under review for a possible update. This project can help inform conservation efforts by making traditional knowledge more accessible, but also by bringing traditional names of limu back into use by numerous communities including traditional practitioners, anthropologists, conservationists, and scientists.
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Botany,
algae,
inoa,
limu,
nupepa
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70 pages
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