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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Note on Names
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Cultural Intervention in America’s Eden
2. Finding and Defining Traditional Hawai‘i
3. Interpreting an Authentic “Sense of Place”
4. Performing “The Other Side of the Island”
5. Beyond the Festival Afterglow
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary of Foreign Words
References
Index
About the Author

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