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Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7380-3
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Oceanic Literacy: A Politics and an Ethics
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Published:October 2016
Chapter 2 articulates what an oceanic literacy might look, feel, smell, and taste like. This chapter describes the rhythms within oceanic literacy, and how Hawaiian songs, art, and poetry connect with these rhythms. The body also engages and experiences the ebb and flow of ke kai through the enactments of he’e nalu (surfing), lawai’a (fishing), and ho’okele (navigation). Oceanic literacy becomes a political and ethical way a reading and writing in the wind, land, and sea, because it involves non-linear movements in-between spaces and times that create a specifically Kanaka worldview and epistemology.
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