Ma‘i Lepera : : Disease and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i /

Ma‘i Lepera : : Disease and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i / / Kerri A. Inglis.

Ma‘i Lepera attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawai‘i’s history. It takes an unprecedented look at the Hansen’s disease outbreak (1865–1900) almost exclusively from the perspective of “patients,” ninety percent of whom were Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian). Using tradition...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Inglis, Kerri A.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 18 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to Readers
  • Mō‘ī of the Hawaiian Kingdom
  • Significant Events in the History of Leprosy in Hawai‘i
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 .A Land and a Disease Set Apart
  • CHAPTER 2. The Criminalization of Leprosy in Hawai‘i
  • CHAPTER 3. Accommodation, Adaptation, and Resistance to Leprosy and the Law
  • CHAPTER 4. Living with Disease and Death at Makanalua
  • CHAPTER 5. The Journey into Exile
  • CHAPTER 5. Ma‘i Ho‘oka‘awale—The Disease That Separates
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: He Kanawai—E Kaohi Ai I Ka Laha Ana O Ka Ma‘i Lepera
  • Appendix B: An Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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