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Kuaaina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui (Choice Outstanding Academic Books)
Patrick V. Kirch
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Description for Kuaaina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui (Choice Outstanding Academic Books)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, frontispiece, figures. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 621.
In early Hawai‘i, kuaaina were the hinterlands inhabited by kuaaina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much skill and hard work were required to wrest a living from the lava landscapes. The ancient district of Kahikinui in southeast Maui is such a kua‘?ina and remains one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land in the islands. Named after Tahiti Nui in the Polynesian homeland, its thousands of pristine acres house a treasure trove of archaeological ruins—witnesses to the generations of Hawaiians who made this land their home before it was abandoned in the late nineteenth ... Read more
In early Hawai‘i, kuaaina were the hinterlands inhabited by kuaaina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much skill and hard work were required to wrest a living from the lava landscapes. The ancient district of Kahikinui in southeast Maui is such a kua‘?ina and remains one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land in the islands. Named after Tahiti Nui in the Polynesian homeland, its thousands of pristine acres house a treasure trove of archaeological ruins—witnesses to the generations of Hawaiians who made this land their home before it was abandoned in the late nineteenth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824839550
SKU
V9780824839550
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About Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick Vinton Kirc is the Class of 1954 Professor of anthropology and integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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