 | Troy R. Johnson - 1999 - Страниц: 334
...culture flourishes at the upper end of that progression, Westerners have told the history of Hawai'i as an inevitable if occasionally bittersweet triumph...put away my books and return to the land. I had to plant taw in the earth before I could understand the inseparable bond between people and 'aina [land].... | |
 | Shirley Jones - 2011 - Страниц: 240
...men they were, it will be enough. - JOE DE ARRIETA Basque, Pyrenees border region of France and Spain To know my history, I had to put away my books and return to the land. I had to plant taro in the earth before I could understand the inseparable bond between people and "aina" [land].... | |
 | Haunani-Kay Trask - 1999 - Страниц: 278
...culture flourishes at the upper end of that progression, Westerners have told the history of Hawai'i as an inevitable if occasionally bittersweet triumph of Western ways over "primitive" Hawaiian ways. A few authors — the most sympathetic — have recorded with deep-felt sorrow the passing of our people.... | |
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Burdened by a linear, progressive conception of history and by an assumption that Euro-American culture flourishes at the upper end of that progression, Westerners have told the history of Hawai'i as an inevitable if occasionally bitter-sweet triumph... 