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Under the Volcano: the People of Kalapana

Name: Under the Volcano: the People of Kalapana
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SKU: 9781535550345
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Contributors:

Charles Langlas

Publisher:

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Anthropology

Book Topic:

Cultural & Social

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Release Date:

8/6/2016

ISBN 13:

9781535550345

Weight:

1.31 lbs

Size:

11.00 x 8.50 x 0.53 inches

Pages:

254

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Kalapana, which lies downslope from Kilauea, the most active Hawaiian volcano, is significant as one of the few Hawaiian communities that persisted on the land into the twentieth century. Encroaching lava flows forced The Kalapana community to move away in the 1980s. This oral history shares the memories of people who grew up in Kalapana in the 1920s and 1930s, much of it in their own words. It fills a major gap in the history and anthropology of Hawaiian culture. With the twentieth century, Hawaiians and Hawaiian culture tend to disappear from the written histories of Hawaii, seemingly less important than the burgeoning plantation economy and the prospering white and Asian immigrant groups. For their part, anthropologists did not do fieldwork to describe Hawaiian communities until the last half of the twentieth century. Earlier anthropological work was aimed at recording surviving traditional lore, rather than describing living Hawaiian communities.After a section describing the nineteenth century history of Kalapana, the study focuses on the 1920s and 1930s, based on the memories of elders who grew up during that time. Despite conversion to Christianity and political integration into the United States, Kalapana life remained distinctively Hawaiian, including traditional methods of fishing and farming, family life, Hawaiian language, and belief in Hawaiian spirits. A later section brings the history of Kalapana up to the present, including the 1986-1990 lava flow that covered most of the villages and dispersed the Hawaiian community, and subsequent moves toward community renewal.

About the Author
Charles Langlas is retired from the College of Hawaiian Language, University of Hawaii at Hilo. He lived on the Island of Hawaii for many years.

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