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Book Hanahana

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michi Kodama-Nishimoto
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824817923
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Hanahana written by Michi Kodama-Nishimoto and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanahana, reduplication of the Hawaiian word, hana, is a pidgin term for work. Originally used by those who labored on the sugar plantations, it later came to be used by other workers in Hawaii. The term, as well as the hard work and way of life it connotes, transcended ethnic and cultural barriers, providing people with a shared understanding of the work experience. Thus, the term's meaning, mixed origin, and common use by workers make it an appropriate title for this anthology, which features oral history narratives of twelve working people. These narratives show us how some workers felt and lived, enrich our understanding of workers in twentieth-century Hawaii, and remind us that history is in the main about men and women like ourselves, who - when given a chance - can present their life stories with eloquence, understanding, and an unmatched sense of realism.

Book Heart  and Soul Like Constructs across Languages  Cultures  and Epochs

Download or read book Heart and Soul Like Constructs across Languages Cultures and Epochs written by Bert Peeters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn’t mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body is the same everywhere. Nonetheless, the (Anglo) mind is often reified and thought of in universal terms. This volume adds to the literature that denounces such reification. It looks at Japanese, Longgu (an Oceanic language), Thai, and Old Norse-Icelandic, spelling out, in a culturally neutral Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), how the "mind-like" constructs in these languages differ from the Anglo mind.

Book The Friend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel Chenery Damon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 746 pages

Download or read book The Friend written by Samuel Chenery Damon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twice as Meaningful

Download or read book Twice as Meaningful written by Silvia Kouwenberg and published by Battlebridge Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reduplication has long been considered a typical feature of Pidgins and Creoles, and this is a serious study of the phenomenon, providing descriptions of reduplicative processes in 25 Creole languages, 8 Pidgins and Afrikaans.

Book Talking Hawaii s Story

Download or read book Talking Hawaii s Story written by Michiko Kodama-Nishimoto and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Hawaii’s Story is the first major book in over a generation to present a rich sampling of the landmark work of Hawaii’s Center for Oral History. Twenty-nine extensive oral histories introduce readers to the sights and sounds of territorial Waikiki, to the feeling of community in Palama, in Kona, or on the island of Lanai, and even to the experience of a German national interned by the military government after Pearl Harbor. The result is a collection that preserves Hawaii’s social and cultural history through the narratives of the people who lived it—co-workers, neighbors, family members, and friends. An Introduction by Warren Nishimoto and Michi Kodama-Nishimoto provides historical context and information about the selection and collection methods. Photos of the interview subjects accompany each oral history. For further reading, an appendix also provides information about the Center for Oral History’s major projects.

Book Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Download or read book Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific written by Emanuel J. Drechsel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.

Book Personnel

Download or read book Personnel written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pacific Unitarian

Download or read book The Pacific Unitarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language written by Lorrin Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roaming in Hawaii

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  • Author : Harry Alverson Franck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Roaming in Hawaii written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl

Download or read book Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl written by Franz Boas and published by Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology. This book was released on 1925 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated Kwakiutl texts dealing with dreams and information relating to the social organization of the tribe.

Book Virtual Reality

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  • Author : Marc Bodmer
  • Publisher : Christoph Merian Verlag
  • Release : 2019-05-13
  • ISBN : 3856169075
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Virtual Reality written by Marc Bodmer and published by Christoph Merian Verlag. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Reality Über das Eintauchen in neue, von Menschen geschaffene Wirklichkeiten. Mit Beiträgen von Marc Bodmer, Jennifer Beck, Neal Hartman, Tina Sauerländer, Peggy Schoenegge, Maike Thies, Wolfgang Ullrich, Matthias Zehnder und Annina Zwettler. Sechster Band der erfolgreichen Reihe "Edition Digital Culture". Virtual Reality war schon früh auf der Wunschliste der Computerentwickler. Der Traum von der Überwindung der flachen Bilderwelt ist alt und taucht bereits in barocken Kirchenkuppeln auf. Das Zauberwort heisst Immersion, das Eintauchen in eine künstliche Umgebung. Die Digitalisierung hat diesen Traum für Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft nun in greifbare Nähe gebracht.Die zweisprachige Publikation beleuchtet das Potenzial der neuen Formen von Immersion im Bereich der Kultur mit Beispielen aus Film, Fernsehen, Museen, Kunst, Bildung, Unterhaltung und Gaming. Projekte wie Birdly, Desktop Jacob Burckhardt Digital oder das Werk von Mélodie Mousset werden vorgestellt. Seitenblicke auf die Industrie (Medizin, Architektur) ergänzen die Darstellung. Ein umfangreiches Glossar im Anhang erklärt die wichtigsten Begriffe.

Book Ethnology of the Kwakiutl

Download or read book Ethnology of the Kwakiutl written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recent Developments in Historical Phonology

Download or read book Recent Developments in Historical Phonology written by Jacek Fisiak and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Book Goodbye Privacy

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  • Author : Gerfried Stocker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Goodbye Privacy written by Gerfried Stocker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the catalogue for the 2007 Ars Electronic Festival, held in Linz, Austria. It presents theoretical reflections by participating artists and scholars, along with descriptions of exhibited art projects in a current survey of the fields of interaction between art, technology, and society.

Book Hawaiian Dictionary

Download or read book Hawaiian Dictionary written by Mary Kawena Pukui and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. Now this indispensable reference volume has been enlarged and completely revised. More than 3,000 new entries have been added to the Hawaiian-English section, bringing the total number of entries to almost 30,000 and making it the largest and most complete of any Polynesian dictionary. Other additions and changes in this section include: a method of showing stress groups to facilitate pronunciation of Hawaiian words with more than three syllables; indications of parts of speech; current scientific names of plants; use of metric measurements; additional reconstructions; classical origins of loan words; and many added cross-references to enhance understanding of the numerous nuances of Hawaiian words. The English Hawaiian section, a complement and supplement to the Hawaiian English section, contains more than 12,500 entries and can serve as an index to hidden riches in the Hawaiian language. This new edition is more than a dictionary. Containing folklore, poetry, and ethnology, it will benefit Hawaiian studies for years to come.

Book CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL VOLUME III

Download or read book CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL VOLUME III written by FRANZ BOAS and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: