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Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory (A Latitude 20 Book)
Anwei Skinsnes Law
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Description for Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory (A Latitude 20 Book)
Paperback. Series: A Latitude 20 Book. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 216 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1678.
Between 1866 and 1969, an estimated 8,000 individuals--at least 90 percent of whom were Native Hawaiians--were sent to Molokai's remote Kalaupapa peninsula because they were believed to have leprosy. Unwilling to accept the loss of their families, homes, and citizenship, these individuals ensured they would be accorded their rightful place in history. They left a powerful testimony of their lives in the form of letters, petitions, music, memoirs, and oral history interviews. Kalaupapa combines more than 200 hours of interviews with archival documents, including over 300 letters and petitions written by the earliest residents translated from Hawaiian. ... Read more
Between 1866 and 1969, an estimated 8,000 individuals--at least 90 percent of whom were Native Hawaiians--were sent to Molokai's remote Kalaupapa peninsula because they were believed to have leprosy. Unwilling to accept the loss of their families, homes, and citizenship, these individuals ensured they would be accorded their rightful place in history. They left a powerful testimony of their lives in the form of letters, petitions, music, memoirs, and oral history interviews. Kalaupapa combines more than 200 hours of interviews with archival documents, including over 300 letters and petitions written by the earliest residents translated from Hawaiian. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
A Latitude 20 Book
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824836368
SKU
V9780824836368
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About Anwei Skinsnes Law
Anwei Skinsnes Law first visited Kalaupapa in 1968 at the age of sixteen. Over the last forty years, she has researched the history of leprosy in Hawai'i, conducted oral history interviews at Kalaupapa, and produced documentaries and books on different aspects of Kalaupapa's history. Since 1994 Law has served as the international coordinator of IDEA, the largest international human rights ... Read more
Reviews for Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory (A Latitude 20 Book)
This book, while conveying the facts and figures, is primarily what its subtitle implies: a collective memoir. Throughout, it's the voices of patients that sing and murmur, shout and whisper from the pages. And their words
from oral histories Law has been collecting for 40 years to letters, documents and poetic Hawaiian songs you'd hardly expect from the pens of people ... Read more
from oral histories Law has been collecting for 40 years to letters, documents and poetic Hawaiian songs you'd hardly expect from the pens of people ... Read more