J. Uluwehi Hopkins,<\/strong> ‘Mo\u02bbolelo as Methodology: Hawaiian Knowledge Systems Embedded in Oral Histories’<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday, 14th<\/sup> July 2023, 10am (BST) – Online<\/strong><\/p>\n Mo\u02bbolelo is the Hawaiian word for \u201chistory\u201d and \u201cstory.\u201d In the ancestral Hawaiian worldview, these two concepts are intertwined, but it is often seen as a problem by the conservative Western methodology of doing history. Fields such as anthropology or archaeology use oral histories as evidence to start their investigations, but the other fields tend to take verbal community knowledge seriously only after it is verified by those Western social sciences.<\/p>\n Indigenous scholars who are immersed in the worldview of their own cultures bring different perspectives on their own ancestral knowledge, interpreting oral histories in a way that would only make sense to a member of that society. For example, kaona is a Hawaiian method of conveying multiple meanings simultaneously through the verbal delivery of mo\u02bbolelo. In this presentation, I will discuss this and other oral devices and how they can be interpreted to be used as valid source material for historical research.<\/p>\n Bio<\/strong>: J. Uluwehi Hopkins is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) postdoctoral scholar with an M.A. in Hawaiian Studies and a Ph.D. in the History of Hawai\u02bbi prior to 1900, both from the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa. She is currently a Lecturer in World History and the History of Hawai\u02bbi at the University of Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s West O\u02bbahu campus. Her research focuses on oral histories prior to the advent of writing, and the conflict between indigenous knowledge and Western influence during the Hawaiian Kingdom era (1810-1893). Her past and future publications include works on Pacific Voyaging, analyzing colonialism in fables, unearthing indigenous management methods of natural resources, and connections between Hawai\u02bbi and the world during the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/indigenous-writing-reclaiming-the-past-imagining-the-future-juhopkins-tickets-645324873067?aff=oddtdtcreator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" J. Uluwehi Hopkins, ‘Mo\u02bbolelo as Methodology: Hawaiian Knowledge Systems Embedded in Oral Histories’ Friday, 14th July 2023, 10am (BST) – Online Mo\u02bbolelo is the Hawaiian word for \u201chistory\u201d and \u201cstory.\u201d In the ancestral Hawaiian worldview, these two concepts are intertwined, but it is often seen as a problem by the conservative Western methodology of doing … Continue reading “J. Uluwehi Hopkins (Hawai’i, West O’ahu), ‘Mo\u02bbolelo as Methodology: Hawaiian Knowledge Systems Embedded in Oral Histories’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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