Ancestry of Experience

A Journey into Hawaiian Ways of Knowing

Bibliographic Data

ID7213264
AuthorsLeilani Holmes (corresponding author)
EditorsRussell Leong, David K Yoo
Year2017
Pages248
Publication date2017-10-13
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAncestry of Experience (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780824837723
OpenAlexW2617305149
Open LibraryOL29357367M
ISBN9780824837723
LanguageEN
References cited24

As Hawaiians continue to recover their language and culture, the voices of kupuna (elders) are heard once again in urban and rural settings, both in Hawai'i and elsewhere. How do kupuna create knowledge and "tell" history? What do they tell us about being Hawaiian? Adopted by a Midwestern couple in the 1950s as an infant, Leilani Holmes spent much of her early life in settings that offered no clues about her Hawaiian past-images of which continued to haunt her even as she completed a master's thesis on Hawaiian music and identity in southern California. Ancestry of Experience documents Holmes' quest to reclaim and understand her own origin story. Holmes writes in two different and at times incongruent voices-one describing the search for her genealogy, the other critiquing Western epistemologies she encounters along the way

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