Approaches to the Academic Study of Hawaiian Literature and Culture John Charlot THE PacIFIC INstITUTE BRIGhaM YOUNG UNIVERSIty–HAWAI‘I LĀ‘ie, Hawai‘i Copyright © 2005 John Charlot All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS This publication and all material contained in it are copyrighted property and may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, repurposed, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any form or any means, except for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that (1) you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices, and (2) you make no modifications to the materials. ISBN-13: 978-0-939154-71-5 CD-ROM ISBN-10: 0-939154-71-4 CD-ROM Published by: The Pacific Institute BYUH #1979 55–220 Kulanui Street Lā‘ie HI 96762-1294 (808) 293-3665 Distributed by the University of Hawai‘i Press: Order Department 2840 Kolowalu Street Honolulu, HI 96822 www.uhpress.hawaii.edu
[email protected] (808) 956-8255 (888) 847-7377 Fax: (808) 988-6052 (800) 650-7811 Approaches to the Academic Study of Hawaiian Literature and Culture awaiian culture is an example of an indigenous traditional culture lived within a society dominated by an intro- duced one. Other examples are New Zealand Māori and HNative American Indian cultures. A variety of pressures can be applied to the members of these cultures, who can in turn display a spectrum of reaction from outright rejection of the introduced culture to total assimilation into it. Since the arrival of Westerners, Hawaiians have felt many pressures and reacted along the whole spectrum.