E HOʻI I KA PIKO - NĀ PIKO ʻEHĀ - I PIKO HOU NO NĀ PIKO ʻEKOLU

dc.contributor.advisor Wong, Kerry L.
dc.contributor.author Ezell Jr., John Thomas
dc.contributor.department Hawaiian
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-02T17:53:09Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-02T17:53:09Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.description.degree M.A.
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/63191
dc.subject Cultural anthropology
dc.subject History of Oceania
dc.subject Pedagogy
dc.subject fontanel
dc.subject fourth-piko
dc.subject genitalia
dc.subject piko
dc.subject triple-piko
dc.subject umbilicus
dc.title E HOʻI I KA PIKO - NĀ PIKO ʻEHĀ - I PIKO HOU NO NĀ PIKO ʻEKOLU
dc.type Thesis
dcterms.abstract Native Hawaiian traditions explain how people share a link to the mana of the divine through three metaphysical connections, or piko. The piko of the body, namely the fontanel, the umbilicus, and the genitalia, are introduced in the book Nānā I Ke Kumu. The triple-piko concept, as coined by Pukui are the three areas of the body by which an individual in old Hawaiʻi is linked to their forebears, and their descendants yet unborn through shared spiritual and emotional bonds. While this concept is widely accepted and used in Hawaiʻi educational institutions today, Pukui states that the knowledge itself is fragmented and therefore incomplete. The result of the implementation of this concept in its current form is the creation of a neurosis among Hawaiian students in which a lack of grounding conflicts with their role and sense of purpose in turn breeding confusion. This thesis paper named E Hoʻi I Ka Piko is the re-introduction to a fourth piko that addresses and resolves the lack of grounding neurosis of the triple-piko concept.
dcterms.description M.A. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2019
dcterms.extent 69 pages
dcterms.language haw
dcterms.publisher University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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