Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation

Judith Schachter is Professor of Anthropology and History at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been doing fieldwork in Hawai`i for more than two decades. Her publications include Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture (University of California Press, 1994) and A Sealed and Secret Kinship: The Culture of Politics and Practices in American Adoption (Berghahn Books, 2002). Her research includes articles on family and housing policies and, currently, on the movement for indigenous rights in Hawai`i (in Social Identities, 2011).

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: A Perspective on Hawai`i-US RelationsChapter 2. Living on the Land: Malama`aina from Past to PresentChapter 3. "Educating the Polynesian American": Two Worlds of LearningChapter 4. Work, War, and Loyalty: The impact of World War IIChapter 5. Making a Way, Building a Family: Preserving `ohana in an American StateChapter 6. "Stand Fast and Continue": Homestead Generations and the FutureEpilogueGlossaryBibliographyIndex

"Schachter has written a book that models how anthropologists can be responsible and responsive to indigenous people. [It is] massively researched but exceedingly accessible, ethically and methodologically groundbreaking, and yet humble in its ambition and presentation. This book deserves a wide audience, and will appeal to Hawai`i specialists, as well as scholars of the Pacific and indigeneity. It is also imminently suited to classroom use, if students are ready for ethnographic detail...[and] will leave its own rich legacy for future generations of scholars." Asia Pacific Viewpoint