Lady Friends: Hawaiian Ways and the Ties that Define
ISBN: 9781501721809
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Hawaiians -- Social life and customs; Women Hawaiian; Hawaiians -- Ethnic identity;

Many indigenous Hawaiians who have moved to the islands' cities languish at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale and are thought to have lost their cultural roots. Initially apolitical urban Hawaiians were often skeptical of activists who sought to...


Karen L. Ito is a research anthropologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles.

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