{"id":30771,"date":"2015-01-21T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=30771"},"modified":"2021-10-11T14:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T00:34:55","slug":"new-book-celebrates-kanaka-geographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/01\/21\/new-book-celebrates-kanaka-geographies\/","title":{"rendered":"New book celebrates Kanaka geographies"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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In the Hawaiian language, one of the most common questions asked upon meeting a new acquaintance is “no hea mai ʻoe<\/span>?” or “Where are you from?” This emphasis on place as an important aspect of one’s identity is the focus of professor Katrina-Ann Kapā Oliveira’s<\/strong> new book Ancestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies<\/em><\/a>. Oliveira, a Hawaiian language professor with the Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a>, looks into ancestral places and the relationships native Hawaiians share with their environment.<\/p>\n

“The main point that I hope readers walk away with is that Kānaka shared and continue to share a very intimate familial relationship with the ʻ\u0101ina<\/span> as evidenced by our poetry, place names, historical accounts, and proverbs,” said Oliveira. “As a result of this relationship, we have a fiduciary kuleana to our ancestors as well as our descendants to be excellent stewards of the ʻ\u0101ina<\/span> and all of its resources.”<\/p>\n

Book description<\/h2>\n

Ancestral Places<\/em> explores the deep connections that ancestral Kānaka (Native Hawaiians) enjoyed with their environment. It honors the moʻolelo<\/span> (historical accounts) of the ancestral places of their kūpuna (ancestors), and reveals how these moʻolelo<\/span> and their relationships with the ʻ\u0101ina<\/span> (land) inform a Kanaka sense of place.<\/p>\n

The book elucidates a Kanaka geography and provides contemporary scholars with insights regarding traditional culture\u2014including the ways in which Kānaka utilize cartographic performances to map their ancestral places and retain their moʻolelo<\/span>, such as reciting creation accounts, utilizing nuances embedded in language, and dancing hula.<\/p>\n

Ancestral Places<\/em> book launch<\/h2>\n

The public is invited to join the author for the Ancestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies<\/em> book launch on Sunday, January 25 at Native Books<\/a> in Ward Warehouse from 2 to 4 p.m. Event goers will have a chance to meet Oliveira and enjoy live readings, refreshments, and music. For more information on the book launch, contact Native books at (808) 596-8885.<\/p>\n

To purchase Ancestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies<\/em> online, visit the book’s webpage on the Oregon State University Press website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

More on Kumu Kapā<\/h2>\n

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Katrina-Ann R. Kapāʻanaokalāokeola<\/span> Nākoa Oliveira was born on Oʻahu<\/span> and raised on the islands of Maui and Oʻahu<\/span>. She attended the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa where she earned a dual bachelor of arts degree in Hawaiian language and Hawaiian studies as well as a master’s degree and a PhD<\/abbr> in geography. Her research includes Kanaka geographies, epistemologies, language acquisition methodologies and place-based experiential learning curriculum development.<\/p>\n

—By Kapiʻolani<\/span> Ching<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Hawaiian language professor Katrina-Ann Kapā Oliveira publishes Ancestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[33,551,158,9],"class_list":["post-30771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-hawaiian","tag-hawaiinuiakea-school-of-hawaiian-knowledge","tag-publication","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30771"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149551,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30771\/revisions\/149551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}