Defiant indigeneity : the politics of Hawaiian performance
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Teves Stephanie Nohelani ;
- Editeurs : Chapel Hill (North Carolina) The University of North Carolina Press ;
- Date d'édition : Copyright 2018
- ISBN : 978-1-4696-4055-6
- Sujets : Identité collective -- États-Unis -- Hawaii (États-Unis), Hawaii (États-Unis) -- Moeurs et coutumes, Hawaii (États-Unis)
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVIII-220 p.), : Ill., couv. ill. en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Critical indigeneities
Notes
Bibliogr. p. 195-208. Index
Résumé
Une source inconnue indique : 'Theorizes Indigeneity as a performative process, challenging the notion that it can be understood in terms of a prescribed set of unchanging cultural signs. ... Indigenous identity is made up of shared community understandings about belonging that is performed and articulated in multiple settings and contexts. For Kanaka Maoli people, Teves shows that Indigeneity is represented and articulated through the idea of 'aloha,' a concept that is at once the most significant and most misunderstood word in the Hawaiian lexicon'