Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics Of Hawaiian Performance (Critical Indigeneities) - 9781469640549

."..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" --

• | Author: Stephanie N. Teves
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1469640546
• | ISBN-13: 9781469640549