Native Men Remade - 9780822343387

Native Men RemadeGender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i\nAuthor(s): Ty P. K?wika Tengan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822343387, 978-0822343387\nSynopsis\nMany indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s a group of Native men on the island of Maui responded by refashioning and reasserting their masculine identities in a group called the Hale Mua (the Mens House). As a member and an ethnographer, Ty P. K?wika Tengan analyzes how the groups mostly middle-aged, middle-class, and mixed-race members assert a warrior masculinity through practices including martial arts, woodcarving, and cultural ceremonies. Some of their practices are heavily influenced by or .