臺灣原住民族圖書資訊中心館藏介紹

"Historian Seth Archer traces the cultural impact of disease and health problems in the Hawaiian Islands from the arrival of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawaii began with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the national crisis for more than a century. Introduced diseases resulted in drastically reduced lifespans, crushing infertility and infant mortality, and persistent poor health for generations of Islanders, leaving a deep imprint on Hawaiian culture and national consciousness. Scholars have noted the role of epidemics in the depopulation of Hawaii and broader Oceania, yet few have considered the interplay between colonialism, health, and culture – including Native religion, medicine and ideas about the body, and gender and sexuality. This study emphasizes Islanders’ own ideas about, and responses to, disease and other health challenges on the local level. Ultimately, Hawaii provides a case study for health and culture change among indigenous populations across the Americas and the Pacific"– Provided by publisher.

Reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where – using Western standards – none is presumed to exist. The author examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers – Joseph Ho’ona’auao Kānepu’u (1824-ca.1885) and Joseph Moku’ōhai Poepoe (1852-1913) – to show how the rich intellectual history preserved in Hawaiian-language newspapers is key to understanding Native Hawaiian epistemology and ontology. In their newspaper articles, geographical surveys, biographies, historical narratives, translations, literatures, political and economic analyses, and poetic works, Kānepu’u and Poepoe created a record of Hawaiian cultural history and thought in order to transmit ancestral knowledge to future generations. celebrating indigenous intellectual agency in the midst of US imperialism, this book is a call for the further restoration of native Hawaiian intellectual history to help ground contemporary Hawaiian thought, culture, and governance.