Ebook: Defiant Indigeneity: the Politics of Hawaiian Performance

Throwing mangoes at tourists -- How to do things with aloha -- F-you aloha, I love you -- Bloodline is all I need and defiant indigeneity on the West Side -- Aloha in drag -- The afterlife of Princess Ka'iulani -- Bound in place: queer indigenous mobilities and "the old paniolo way" -- Aloha as social connection.;" ... Theorizes Indigeneity as a performative process, challenging the notion that it can be understood in terms of a prescribed set of unchanging cultural signs. ... Indigenous identity is made up of shared community understandings about belonging that is performed and articulated in multiple settings and contexts. For Kanaka Maoli people, Teves shows that Indigeneity is represented and articulated through the idea of "aloha," a concept that is at once the most significant and most misunderstood word in the Hawaiian lexicon"--