83602 research outputs found
Sort by
Bambridge, Tamatoa (Ed.). The Rahui: Legal Pluralism in Polynesian Traditional Management of Resources and Territories
Get PDFDesigns carved on the Rapa Nui stone pillows ngarua
Get PDFThe stone pillows mentioned by the first European visitors to Rapa Nui are known from ethnological and
archaeological contexts. Many of these artifacts are embellished with carvings, in particular with designs of
komari, a stylized depiction of female genitalia. On several pillow stones, the komari is set in frame of a more
complex motif depicting a triangular area covered with parallel hatching. The very same carving appears in a
house of ‘Ōrongo and is known from historical documentation to represent an abdominal tattoo. It may be that
stone pillows adorned with this type of carving were intended to convey a notion of sleeping on a woman’s lap.
Lacking ethnographic explanations, those engravings are both the material expression of a rich symbolic world
and the importance of dreams
Decolonial Pin@y Talk on Settler Colonialism with University of Toronto Students
No full textThis is a oral recording of a talk led by some Decolonial Pin@y members and visiting students and faculty from the University of Toronto. The talk discusses Filipino and Asian settler colonial positionality in Hawaiʻi, how it relates to Indigenous rights issues in Hawaiʻi and in the Philippines, and various strategies of engaging in working class, community, and family activisms. The University of Toronto students provided their responses on their own experiences in Canada. This event was co-sponsored by Roots Cafe, at Kokua Kalihi Valley, and the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Librarian Wikipedian: Using Library Collections in Wikipedia Edit-a-thons
Get PDFFormer URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/43563This poster discusses the concept of using library collections to edit Wikipedia pages
