The Kingdom of Maui

The Kingdom of Maui
Author: Mike Neubauer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Landscape photography
ISBN: 9780615940908

Breathtaking landscape photography from the islands of Maui County (Maui, Molokai and Lanai) in the Hawaiian Archipelago.

The Maui Coast

The Maui Coast
Author: Daniel Sullivan
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781495169137

The Hawaiian Monarchy

The Hawaiian Monarchy
Author: Allan Seiden
Publisher: Mutual Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781566476485

Deeply researched and richly illustrated, and including images from the author's own archives, The Hawaiian Monarchy paints a colorful and multidimensional picture of life in old Hawaii and the nineteenth century, weaving together biography, history, and culture to bring Hawaii's royal past to life. A chronology of events, full index, and list of major personages is included for ease of reference.

Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani

Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani
Author: Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0824879422

Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani is a collaborative study of 78 temple sites in the ancient moku of Kahikinui and Kaupō in southeastern Maui, undertaken using a novel approach that combines archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Although temple sites (heiau) were the primary focus of Hawaiian archaeologists in the earlier part of the twentieth century, they were later neglected as attention turned to the excavation of artifact-rich habitation sites and theoretical and methodological approaches focused more upon entire cultural landscapes. This book restores heiau to center stage. Its title, meaning “Temples, Land, and Sky,” reflects the integrated approach taken by Patrick Vinton Kirch and Clive Ruggles, based upon detailed mapping of the structures, precise determination of their orientations, and accurate dating. Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani is the outcome of a joint fieldwork project by the two authors, spanning more than fifteen years, in a remarkably well-preserved archaeological landscape containing precontact house sites, walls, and terraces for dryland cultivation, and including scores of heiau ranging from simple upright stones dedicated to Kāne, to massive platforms where the priests performed rites of human sacrifice to the war god Kū. Many of these heiau are newly discovered and reported for the first time in the book. The authors offer a fresh narrative based upon some provocative interpretations of the complex relationships between the Hawaiian temple system, the landscape, and the heavens (the “skyscape”). They demonstrate that renewed attention to heiau in the context of contemporary methodological and theoretical perspectives offers important new insights into ancient Hawaiian cosmology, ritual practices, ethnogeography, political organization, and the habitus of everyday life. Clearly, Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani repositions the study of heiau at the forefront of Hawaiian archaeology.

The Ancient Hawaiian State

The Ancient Hawaiian State
Author: Robert J. Hommon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199916128

Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, this book redefines the study of primary states by arguing for the inclusion of Polynesia, which witnessed the development of primary states in both Hawaii and Tonga.

Shoal of Time

Shoal of Time
Author: Gavan Daws
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1974-06
Genre: History
ISBN:

The arrival of Captain Cook and the debates concerning the territory's admission to statehood are given equal attention in this detailed history.

The Kingdom and the Republic

The Kingdom and the Republic
Author: Noelani Arista
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812250737

In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the medium of writing. The arrival of sailors in pursuit of the lucrative sandalwood trade obliged the ali'i (chiefs) of the islands to pronounce legal restrictions on foreigners' access to Hawaiian women. Assuming the new missionaries were the source of these rules, sailors attacked two mission stations, fracturing relations between merchants, missionaries, and sailors, while native rulers remained firmly in charge. In The Kingdom and the Republic, Noelani Arista (Kanaka Maoli) uncovers a trove of previously unused Hawaiian language documents to chronicle the story of Hawaiians' experience of encounter and colonialism in the nineteenth century. Through this research, she explores the political deliberations between ali'i over the sale of a Hawaiian woman to a British ship captain in 1825 and the consequences of the attacks on the mission stations. The result is a heretofore untold story of native political formation, the creation of indigenous law, and the extension of chiefly rule over natives and foreigners alike. Relying on what is perhaps the largest archive of written indigenous language materials in North America, Arista argues that Hawaiian deliberations and actions in this period cannot be understood unless one takes into account Hawaiian understandings of the past—and the ways this knowledge of history was mobilized as a means to influence the present and secure a better future. In pursuing this history, The Kingdom and the Republic reconfigures familiar colonial histories of trade, proselytization, and negotiations over law and governance in Hawai'i.