Sacred claims
Subtitle: repatriation and living tradition
By: Greg Johnson.
Series: Studies in religion and culture
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813926612; 9780813926629
Subjects: Hawaiians -- Funeral customs and rites; Cemeteries -- Hawaii; Cultural property -- Hawaii
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sacred claims and religious acts; title: Subjects, stories, and strategies; title: Islands of practice, discourses of permanence; title: Writing the law, speaking the sacred; title: Tense negotiations : cultural affiliation and the limits of identity; title: Ancestors before us : manifestations and metaphors of tradition in a Hawaiian dispute; title: Religious voices and social borders; title: Dead reckoning and living tradition : sources of power and authority in the divided present; title: Repatriation, tradition, and the study of religion.