American Aloha : : Cultural Tourism and the Negotiation of Tradition / / Heather A. Diamond.

At the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, throngs of visitors gathered on the National Mall to celebrate Hawai'i's multicultural heritage through its traditional arts. The "edu-tainment" spectacle revealed a richly complex Hawai'i few tourists ever see and one never before...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Note on Names
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Cultural Intervention in America's Eden
  • 2. Finding and Defining Traditional Hawai'i
  • 3. Interpreting an Authentic "Sense of Place"
  • 4. Performing "The Other Side of the Island"
  • 5. Beyond the Festival Afterglow
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Foreign Words
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author