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Yosihiko Sinoto and the Hawaiian Fishhook Typology
Amanda Landis ANTH 464: Hawaiian Archaeology Dr. T. Hunt 10 April 2007 The Quiet Revolutionary: Yosihiko Sinoto and the Hawaiian Fishhook Typology Yosihiko Sinoto is not an international anthropology superstar. He is not famous - - or, at least his name is not instantly recognisable. Even his mentor Kenneth Emory is more illustrious. It is difficult to find his work in public and popular forums, such as the internet, unless you know exactly what you are looking for. However, with Yosi Sinoto first impressions -- even the lack of them -- are deceiving. Sinoto is, arguably, one of the most important archaeologists working in Oceania. Many modern accepted wisdoms of the ancient long distance-voyaging are based on the work Sinoto did throughout the Pacific. Sinoto’s definitive work throughout the Hawaiian Islands and French Polynesia established not only a chronology of settlement for Hawaii, but for migration in the Pacific as well. In Hawaii, however, Sinoto is most famous for his work with fishhooks. Sinoto believed that fishhooks could be used as a marking point on a cultural sequence -- specifically, using fishhook types to create a relative chronology. With fellow archaeologists Kenneth Emory and William J. Bonk, Sinoto was able to use fishhooks to create a settlement timeline for Eastern Polynesia as well as prove origins and inter-island interactions of the ancient people of Oceania. Even though some of Sinoto’s methods and 1 theories may have fallen out of favour, Yosi Sinoto’s work with Hawaiian fishhooks remains influential to this day. Born in Japan in 1925, Yoshiko Sinoto, the son of a scientist, became entranced by archaeology at a young age. -
Center for Pacific Islands Studies Newsletter
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies Newsletter sept¢mber/Octotier LIBRARY TO CLOSE SUMMER 1989 ~thro_Pology, University of British Columbia, spoke on Hamilton Library, which houses the U.H. Pacific Col Quantity as a Cultural System: Some Problems in the In lection, will be closed from May 15 to August 15 of 1989 terpretation of Kiribati Language and Culture." to allow removal of ceiling material containing asbestos. On November 4, Lei'ataua Vaiao Ala'ilima gave an Hamilton Library is one of the few remaining buildings "Overview of the Political and Economic Situation in on the U.H. campus from which asbestos has not been Western Samoa"; and Fay Ala'ilima presented "Commen removed. The project for the summer of 1989 is to taries on the Life of Aggie Gray." remove the ceiling material on the makai half of the 2nd UPCOMING SEMINARS floor which has suffered serious water damage over the On Tuesday, November 29, from 11:30 to 1:00 in Por past few years. teus 704F, Dr. Robert Aldrich, Senior Lecturer in The materials in the Pacific Collection will not be avail Economic History from the University of Sydney, will able. However, there is a general collection of Pacific speak on "The French Presence in the South Pacific." literature available in Sinclair Library and hours will be extended to assist faculty and students. Pacific Curator OTHER CENTER ACTIVITIES Karen Peacock and Pacific Specialists Lynette Furuhashi Dr. Kiste visited Washington to attend the National and Renee Heyum will be engaged in special projects for Resource Centers' annual meeting October 16 to 26. -
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THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY VOLUME 127 No.3 SEPTEMBER 2018 VOICES ON THE WIND, TRACES IN THE EARTH: INTEGRATING ORAL NARRATIVE AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN POLYNESIAN HISTORY PATRICK VINTON KIRCH 2018 Nayacakalou Medal Recipient University of California, Berkeley The Polynesian peoples have long been noted for their propensity to encode the rich traditions of their ancestors in oral narrative accounts, often memorised by priests or other specialists, and passed down orally from generation to generation. Anthropologists refer to these as oral traditions, oral history or oral narratives, although they are also often categorised as “legend” or “myth”, terms that tend to dismiss their value as witnesses of real human affairs—that is to say, of history. In this lecture, I focus on a particular form of Polynesian oral narrative or oral history—one that is fundamentally chronological in its structure in that it is explicitly tied to a genealogical framework. Now I confess that I am not a specialist in oral tradition, a subject that is sometimes subsumed under the discipline of “folklore”. I am by training and by practice, over nearly half a century now, an archaeologist first and foremost. But I am also an anthropologist who believes in the holistic vision of that discipline as conceived by such disciplinary ancestors as Alfred Kroeber and Edward Sapir at the beginning of the 20th century. While this may make me something of a living fossil in the eyes of younger scholars who hew to narrower subdisciplinary paths, my holistic training and predilections incline me to see the value in working across and between the different branches of anthropology. -
Appendix a Cultural Impact Assessment
APPENDIX A CULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Volume II: Final Environmental Assessment CULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Management Plan November, 2008 STATE OF HAWAI‘I DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES December 2008 Appendix A Volume II: Final Environmental Assessment TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................3 1.1 Project Background .....................................................................................................3 1.2 Scope of Work ..............................................................................................................4 1.3 Physical and Natural Setting.......................................................................................4 2.0 TRADITIONAL AND HISTORIC BACKGROUND ....................................................8 2.1 Cultural Setting ............................................................................................................8 2.2 Historical Period ........................................................................................................11 2.3 Contemporary Connections to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ....................12 2.4 Cultural Access for Native Hawaiian Practices ......................................................13 3.0 MONUMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN ........................................................................13 4.0 ARCHAEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND ......................................................................16 -
Necker and Nihoa Islands - Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 09/07/2005 03:53 PM
Necker and Nihoa Islands - Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 09/07/2005 03:53 PM Nihoa and Necker Islands By Dennis Kawaharada In 1822, Ka'ahumanu and a royal party including Kaumuali'i, Liholiho, Keopuokalani and Kahekili Ke'eaumoku, visited Ni'ihau and heard chants and stories about an island called Nihoa, to the west of Kaua'i, the direction from which the winter rains came: 'Ea mai ana ke ao ua o Kona, 'Ea mai ana ma Nihoa Ma ka mole mai o Lehua Ua iho a pulu ke kahakai The rain clouds of Kona come, Approaching from Nihoa, From the base of Lehua, Pouring down, drenching the coast. Intrigued, Ka'ahumanu organized an expedition and sailed in two or three boats under Captain William Sumner to visit the island. They landed on the once inhabited, but long deserted island 150 miles WNW of Kaua'i and annexed it to the Hawaiian kingdom. The waterfront area around Ka'ahumanu Street in Honolulu was named Nihoa in honor of the visit. The island was annexed to the Hawaiian Kingdom again by Kamehameha IV, who landed on the island in 1857. In 1885, Queen Lili'uokalani, with 200 excursionists, visited Nihoa on the steamer 'Iwalani, and brought back artifacts-a stone bowl, a stone dish, a coral rubbing stone, and a coral file (Emory 8-11). Nihoa, jutting up from the sea beyond sight of Kaua'i and Ni'ihau, is the westernmost place in this tradition of Kaua'i geography. It has come to stand for "one who bravely faces misfortune": "Ku paku ka pali o Nihoa i ka makani"-"The cliffs of Nihoa stand strongly against the wind" (Pukui, 'Olelo, No. -
Intellectual Roots of Key Anthropologists
SELECTIONS FROM ASSESSING CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Robert Borofsky, editor (1994) New York: McGraw-Hill FREDRIK BARTH is currently Research Fellow under the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. He has previously taught at the universities of Oslo and Bergen, and as a visitor at various American departments of anthropology. He has carried out research in a number of areas, starting in the Middle East with a focus on tribal politics and ecology. His best known works from this period are: Political Leadership among Swat Pathans (1959), Nomads of South Persia (1961), Models of Social Organization (1964), and the edited work Ethnic Groups and Boundaries (1969). Later, he has also done fieldwork in New Guinea and Southeast Asia, and among his publications are Ritual and Knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea (1975) and Cosmologies in the Making (1987). A monograph entitled Balinese Worlds will appear in 1993. "After a wartime childhood in Norway, I started at the University of Chicago with an interest in paleontology and human evolution. But the active and rich teaching program of Fred Eggan, Sol Tax, Robert Redfield and others broadened my intellectual horizon and led, after an interlude on a dig in Iraq with Bob Braidwood, to my choice of social anthropology as the focus of my work. My foundations derived indirectly from Radcliffe-Brown, who had taught my teachers during the 1930s. "Like many of my Chicago cohort, I went on to further studies in England. I chose the L.S.E. Autobiographies: 2 and developed a life-long association with Raymond Firth and, even more importantly, with Edmund Leach, whom I later followed to Cambridge for my Ph.D. -
Asian Perspectives
ASIAN PERSPECTIVES THE BULLETIN OF THE FAR-EASTERN PREHIS1'ORY ASSOCIATION VOLUME VIII. I SlJMMER I 964 Ed£tor WILHELM G. SOLHEIM II HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS 19 66 © Hong Kong University Press, I966 Printed in April I966, I200 copies THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, ELY HOUSE, 37 DOVER STREET, LONDON, W.I ARE THE EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT ASIA EAST OF BURMA Printed in Hong Kong by CATHAY PRESS 3I Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen ASIAN PERSPECTIVES Bulletin of the Far-Eastern Prehistory Association Editor: Wilhelm G. Solheim II; Regional Editors: Northeast Asia-Chester S. Chard; Korea-Kim Won-Yong; Japan-Ichiro Yawata; RyGkyG-Allan H. Smith; China Mainland-Kwang-chih Chang; Hong Kong-S. G. Davis; Vietnam-Truong Buu Lam; Cambodia-Bernard P. GrosIier; Thailand-Chin You-di and Vidya Intakosai; Burma-U Aung Thaw; India-B. B. Lal; Pakistan A. H. Dani; Ceylon-P. Deraniyagala; Madagascar-Pierre Verin; Malaya Alastair Lamb; Indonesia-R. Soekmono and R. P. Soejono; Malaysian Borneo Barbara Harrisson; Philippines-Alfredo E. Evangelista; Formosa-Kwang-chih Chang; Micronesia-Allan H. Smith; Polynesia-Yo H. Sinoto; New Zealand Owen Wilkes ; Melanesia-Richard Shutler, Jr ; Australia-Frederick D. McCarthy. Topical Editors: Trans-Pacific Contat.ts-Gordon F. Ekhohn; Linguistics-Milton E. Barker; Geography-Ooi Jin Bee. Occasional Contributors: Hallam L. Movius, Jr. THE FAR-EASTERN PREHISTORY ASSOCIATION International Officers: Council Members: Chairman-Wilhelm G. Solheim II,* Secretary-Roger Duff* (New Zealand), Ichiro Yawata* and Namio Egami (Japan), BernardP. Groslier* (Cambodia), Frederick McCarthy and Jack Golson* (Australia), A. P. Okladnikov** (Russia), Yu-ho Toh** (North Korea), Che-won Kim (South Korea), Li Chi (Republic of China, Taiwan), Hsia Nai** (China, Peking), F. -
Eastern· Asia and Oceania
I Eastern· Asia and Oceania WILHELM G. SOLHEIM II TENTH PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS A general notice of the Tenth Pacific Science Congress was presented in this section of the last news issue of Asian Perspectives. There are to be four sessions jointly sponsored by the Section of anthropology and Social Sciences of the Congress and the Far-Eastern Prehistory Association. The organizer of this Division is Dr Kenneth P. Emory, Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu 17, Hawaii and the Co-organizer is Dr Wilhelm G. Solheim II, FEPA, Department ofAnthropology and Archreology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Three ofthe sessions are symposia; these are: 'Geochronology: Methods and Results', Convener-Wilhelm G. Solheim II; 'Current Research in Pacific Islands Archreology', Convener-Kenneth P. Emory; and 'Trade Stone ware and Porcelain in Southeast Asia', Convener-Robert P. Griffing, Jr., Director, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii. The fourth session will be 'Contri buted Papers on Far Eastern Archreology', with its Chairman Roger Duff, Director, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. There are a number of other symposia in the Anthropology and Social Science Section which will be of particular interest to the archreologist. A detailed report of the meetings will appear in the Winter 1961 issue (Vol. V, No.2) of Asian Perspect£ves. UNIVERSITY PROGRAlVIMES IN FAR-EASTERN PREHISTORY Academic interest in the inclusion of Oceanian and Southeast Asian prehistoric archreology in the university curriculum is continuing to increase. In 1960 the Australian National University indicated their intention of including this in their programme with the selection of Jack Golson as a Fellow on the staff of their Department of Anthropology and Sociology. -
HA Vol. 7 For
hawaiian archaeology 7 Volume 7, 1999 Society for Hawaiian Archaeology hawaiian archaeology Volume 7, 1999 Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Editor’s Note 3 Elaine Rogers Jourdane Obituary for Catherine Cooke Summers 8 Papers Patrick C. McCoy Neither Here nor There: A Rites of Passage Site on the Eastern Fringes of the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry, Hawai‘i 11 Tim Denham, Francis J. Eblé, Palaeoenvironmental and Archaeological Barbara Winsborough, and Investigations at ‘Öhi‘apilo Pond, Leeward Jerome V. Ward Coast of Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i 35 Forum Patrick V. Kirch Hawaiian Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future 60 C. Këhaunani Cachola-Abad and He Pane Ho‘omälamalama: Setting the Record Edward Halealoha Ayau Straight and a Second Call for Partnership 73 Ross Cordy Thoughts from the Chaotic Midst of Hawaiian Archaeology 82 P. Bion Griffin Hawaiian Archaeology: A Post-Colonial History 89 Yosihiko H. Sinoto Some Comments on “Hawaiian Archaeology: Past, Present and Future” 99 hawaiian archaeology 7 Tom Dye, Editor Production of this volume was made possible with the generous financial assistance of Scientific Consultant Services, Inc. Cultural Resource Management Services issn 0890–1678 Contributor notes and subscription information can be found on the second to the last page of this volume. Editor‘s Note It is difficult to remember the state of Hawaiian archaeology before the Society’s Annual Conferences began over a decade ago. Begun at a time when the center of archaeological activity had nearly completed its disper- sal to the many cultural resources management firms from its old centers at Bishop Museum and the University of Hawai‘i, the conferences brought together archaeologists whose daily work rarely, if ever, did so. -
Kon-Tiki Theory’
Melander, V. 2019. David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Reception Bofulletin the History of Archaeology of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 29(1): 6, pp. 1–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-612 RESEARCH PAPER: ASIA/PACIFIC David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Reception of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’ Victor Melander From the late 1930s to his death in 2002, Norwegian adventurer and amateur ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl struggled to find academic acceptance for his Pacific Islands settlement theory. He even went as far as using the biblical story of David and Goliath as a metaphor for his struggle against academia. However, there are numerous reasons to question the accuracy of Heyerdahl’s description of his relationship to the scientific community. This paper discusses the reception of Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki theory’ among Pacific scholars in the late 1940s and early 1950s. By analysing contemporary reviews of Heyerdahl’s 1952 book American Indians in the Pacific and comments on early drafts of the theory, this paper demonstrates that the material substantially differs from Heyerdahl’s own claims. He was not excluded by the Pacific scientific community, but welcomed and encouraged. Above all, reviewers of Heyerdahl’s theory praised the importance of the challenge he had posed to the established research narrative. However, Heyerdahl’s academic amateurism failed to convince the scientific community of the accuracy of his theory. Introduction 170–214). The theme was hardly new and had already From the late 1930s to his death in 2002, Norwegian been adopted by Heyerdahl as a narrative driving force in adventurer and amateur ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl the 1940s (e.g. -
Society for Hawaiian Archaeology
hawaiian archaeology 12 Volume 12, 2011 Society for Hawaiian Archaeology hawaiian archaeology Volume 12, 2011 Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Patrick V. Kirch When Did the Polynesians Settle Hawai‘i? A Review of 150 Years of Scholarly Inquiry and a Tentative Answer 3 Boyd Dixon and Floodwater Farming of Ritual Offerings at Kaunolū and Maurice Major Māmaki on Leeward Lāna‘i, Hawai‘i 27 Windy Keala McElroy and Anatomy of an Unfinished Lo‘i System: The Ku‘ele West Steven Eminger Complex in Wailau Valley, Moloka‘i 47 Patrick C. McCoy Signs of a Divine Reality: The Materiality of Bird Cook Stones (Pōhaku ‘Eho) from the Dry Interior Uplands and Mountainous Regions of the Island of Hawai‘i 65 James L. Flexner Bottles, Abandonment, and Re-visitation in the Hansen’s Disease Settlement at Kalawao, Moloka‘i 108 Thomas S. Dye Contemporary Practice of Archaeology in Hawai‘i 125 hawaiian archaeology 12 Windy Keala McElroy, Editor ISSN 0890-1678 Editorial notices and subscription information can be found on the inside of the back cover of this volume. When Did the Polynesians Settle Hawai‘i? A Review of 150 Years of Scholarly Inquiry and a Tentative Answer1 Patrick V. Kirch University of California, Berkeley Departments of Anthropology & Integrative Biology Abstract The question of when Polynesians first discovered the Hawaiian Islands—the most remote archipelago in the world—has engaged scholars for two centuries. Abraham Fornander, Edward Handy, Te Rangi Hiroa, Kenneth Emory, and others proposed theories and projected dates of first settlement based on oral traditions, genealogies, and linguistic comparisons. With the advent of stratigraphic archaeology and radiocarbon dating, new models of Polynesian settlement emerged, seeming to push back the date of Polynesian settlement in Eastern Polynesia. -
Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation
Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 20 | Issue 1 Article 3 2006 From the Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation (2006) "From the Editors," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol20/iss1/3 This Commentary or Dialogue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. et al.: From the Editors F~M TH£ £DITO(Z.~ ill ISSUE OF Rapa Nui Journal focuses on both hi toric placed there and from this region, arrows of colonization T and contemporary problem and their connection to pre went off in all directions. A quite uncritical, or maybe opti hi toric remains. Ceremonial ites in the Pacific were modi mistic, view concerning the accuracy of the dated sample fied and changed during their 'lifetime' and such change made it po ible to place the original settlement just before may provide chronological equence. Changes occurred the first century BC in the Marque as I lands, around AD becau e of natural disasters (e.g., t unami, a the ca e with 300 on Rapa Nui, and around AD 100-200 on Hawai'i.