Author: William Wayne Farri
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: history, economic, social, japan
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0824833791
ISBN-13: 9780824833794

"Japan to 1600" traces Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to the consolidation of political power under the Tokugawa shogunate at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Unlike other introductory texts on early Japanese history, it views its subject from the perspective of developments that impacted all social classes rather than the privileged and powerful few. Economically, William Wayne Farris describes how the residents of the archipelago gradually moved from a forager mode of subsistence to a more predominantly agrarian base, s

Author: Bill Palmer
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: special, publications, linguistics, oceanic, grammar, kokota
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0824832515
ISBN-13: 9780824832513

This work describes the grammar of Kokota, a highly endangered Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands, spoken by about nine hundred people on the island of Santa Isabel. After several long periods among the Kokota, Dr. Palmer has written an unusually detailed and comprehensive description of the language. Kokota has never before been described, so this work makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the Oceanic languages of island Melanesia. Kokota Grammar examines the phonology of the language and includes a lengthy section on stress assignment. It continues with chapters on nouns a

Author: James Mak
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: tourism, planning, hawaii, policy, developing, destination, dream
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0824832434
ISBN-13: 9780824832438

Developing a Dream Destination is an interpretive history of tourism and tourism policy development in Hawai`i from the 1960s to the twenty-first century. Part 1 looks at the many changes in tourism since statehood (1959) and tourism’s imprint on Hawai`i. Part 2 reviews the development of public policy toward tourism, beginning with a story of the planning process that started around 1970--a full decade before the first comprehensive State Tourism Plan was crafted and implemented. It also examines state government policies and actions taken relative to the taxation of tourism, tourism pr

Author: Don J. Wyatt
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: evolution, sung, thought, moral, yung, loyang, shao, recluse
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0824817559
ISBN-13: 9780824817558

Author: H. Paul Varley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: expanded, updated, culture, japanese
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-05-28
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0824821521
ISBN-13: 9780824821524

For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the forty-seven ronin, Mito scholarship in the early nineteenth century, and mass culture and comics in contemporary times.

Author: E. Victoria Shook
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: solving, process, problem, hawaiian, contemporary, uses, oponopono
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1986-02-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0824810473
ISBN-13: 9780824810474

Authors:Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Gary Needham,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: guide, reader, cinemas, asian
Number of Pages: 473
Published: 2006-05-31
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0824830857
ISBN-13: 9780824830854

The West’s current fascination with Asian cinema must be viewed in the context of a complex and often problematic relationship between Western scholars, students, viewers, and Asian films. this book examines a number of detailed case studies (such as the films of Ozu, Hong Kong, and Turkish cinema, Hindi melodramas, Godzilla films, and Fifth Generation Chinese cinema) and uses them to investigate the limitations of Anglo-U.S. theoretical models and critical paradigms.