Kanaka Hawai'i Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory

by Renee Pualani Louis, Moana Kahele (Editor)

Overview

Kanaka Hawai'i Cartography Practices are a compilation of intimate, interactive, and integrative processes that present place as "experienced space," situate mapping in the environment, and encode spatial knowledge into bodily memory via repetitive recitations and other habitual practices, such as hula. Kanaka Hawai'i cartography is similar to Western cartography in that it provides a shorthand system of understanding spatial phenomenon, but distinctive in that it places emphasis on multisensual cognitive abilities and multidimensional symbolic interrelationships, and privileges performance as a primary mode of communication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870718892
Publisher:	Oregon State University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2017
Edition description:	1
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

Table of Contents

Illustrations ix

Ka Ho'oia'i'o 'Ana (Acknowledgments) xi

He Oli Komo (A Request to Enter) xiii

Welina (Greetings) xv

Aia i Hea Au? (Where Am I?) xxi

Ka 'Olelo Mua (Introduction) 1

Part 1 Na Kahua Hawai'i (Hawai'i Foundations)

Chapter 1 Na Kumu Mana'o Hawai'i (Hawai'i Theoretical Sources) 17

Mana as a Kanaka Hawai'i Ontology 21

'Ohana as a Kanaka Hawai'i Epistemology 22

Kinolau and Kaona as Kanaka Hawai'i Methodological Processes 25

Papaku Makawalu as a Kanaka Hawai'i Methodology 27

Kanaka Hawai'i Sensory Perception 30

Chapter 2 Na Kunna 'Ike Hawai'i (Hawai'i Knowledge Perspectives) 34

Ku i ke Kino (Pertaining to the Body) 35

Ku i ka Mokupuni (Pertaining to the Island) 37

Kit i ka Honua (Pertaining to the Planet) 42

Diurnal cycles 43

Lunar cycles 44

Seasonal cycles 45

Annual cycle 46

Chapter 3 Na Mahele 'Ike Hawai'i (Hawai'i Knowledge Classifications) 50

Ku i ke Kino (Pertaining to the Body) 50

Body-centric professional classifications 51

Body-centric gendered classifications 52

Body-centric genealogical classifications 54

Ku i ka Mokupuni (Pertaining to the Island) 55

Island-centric physiological landscape classifications 55

Island-centric physiological oceanscape classifications 59

Island-centric physiological skyscape classifications 60

Island-centric physiological starscape classifications 62

Island-centric sociopolitical landscape classifications 63

Ku i ka Honua (Pertaining to the Planet) 67

Part 2 Na Nana Hawai'i (Hawai'i Practices)

Chapter 4 Ka Ho'okele (Hawai'i Navigation) 83

Preparing the Navigator 86

Ka Huaka'i (The Journey) 97

Perceptions of Kanaka Hawai'i Spatial/Temporal Knowledge Acquisition 107

Chapter 5 Ka Haku 'Ana (Hawai'i Composing) 110

Preparing the Composer 113

Ka Ha'i Mo'oleo 'Ana (Storytelling) 132

Perceptions of Kanaka Hawai'i Spatial/Temporal Knowledge Symbolization 141

Chapter 6 Ka Hula (Hawai'i Dance) 143

Preparing the Dancer 146

Ka Ho 'ike (The Performance) 158

Perceptions of Kanaka Hawai'i Spatial/Temporal Knowledge Transmission 162

Chapter 7 Ka'Olelo Hope (Conclusion) 165

Eia Au (I Am Here) 173

Glossary 177

Notes 195

References 199

Index 209