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The Past Before Us : Mookuauhau As Methodology
Paperback Edition: 1
The title of the book, The Past before Us, refers to the importance of ka wa mamua or "the time in front" in Hawaiian thinking.
In this collection of essays, eleven Kanaka Oiwi (Native Hawaiian) scholars honor their mookuauhau (geneaological lineage) by using genealogical knowledge drawn from the past to shape their research methodologies.
These contributors, Kanaka writing from Hawaii as well as from the diaspora throughout the Pacific and North America, come from a wide range of backgrounds including activism, grassroots movements, and place-based cultural practice, in addition to academia. Their work offers broadly applicable yet deeply personal perspectives on complex Hawaiian issues and demonstrates that enduring ancestral ties and relationships to the past are not only relevant, but integral, to contemporary Indigenous scholarship.
Chapters on language, literature, cosmology, spirituality, diaspora, identity, relationships, activism, colonialism, and cultural practices unite around methodologies based on mookuauhau. This cultural concept acknowledges the times, people, places, and events that came before; it is a fundamental worldview that guides our understanding of the present and our navigation into the future.
This book is a welcome addition to the growing fields of Indigenous, Pacific Islands, and Hawaiian studies.
Pages : 194
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Publication date : 2019-04-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the USA, Published in Hawai'i, Pasifika, Pacific History, Pacific Indigenous Knowledge