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Available now! Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea, find it here: https://buff.ly/2vgEQqa⠀ ⠀ Elusive Belonging examines the post-migration experiences of Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Marriage migration—crossing national borders for marriage—has attracted significant public and scholarly attention, especially in new destination countries, which grapple with how to integrate marriage migrants and their children and what that integration means for citizenship boundaries and a once-homogenous national identity. In the early twenty-first century many Filipina marriage immigrants arrived in South Korea under the auspices of the Unification Church, which has long served as an institutional matchmaker.

On Monday, April 16, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., at Kapiʻolani Community College's ‘Ōhi‘a Auditorium, UHP author John Clark will present and answer questions about his 50-minute video that was produced for the Department of Education by award-winning videographer Ann Marie Kirk. The documentary, "Ka‘ahele Ma Waikīkī" (Tour of Waikīkī), is based on his 2011 book, HAWAIIAN SURFING: Traditions from the Past. An outstanding University of Hawai‘i alumnus (AS ’75, BA ’76, MPA ’94), John Clark is a historian, lifelong surfer, former lifeguard, and retired Honolulu Fire Department deputy fire chief. His tenth book with UH Press, KALAUPAPA PLACE NAMES: Waikolu to Nihoa, is newly published this month. Photo by Elyse Butler, 2016. #uhpress #surfbooks #surfing #hawaii #hawaiiplacenames #waikiki #hawaiiwriters #documentary #bookstagram #newrelease

Available now! Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan, find it here: https://buff.ly/2HFkgBp⠀ ⠀ The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea’s undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan.

Available now! Southeast Asia's Cold War: An Interpretive History, find it here: https://buff.ly/2FZR9LN⠀ ⠀ The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated by American motivations and concerns, with Southeast Asian perspectives largely confined to the Indochina wars and Indonesia under Sukarno. Southeast Asia’s Cold War corrects this situation by examining the international politics of the region from within rather than without. It provides an up-to-date, coherent narrative of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast Asia against a backdrop of superpower rivalry.

Available now! Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawaii, find it here: https://buff.ly/2FKodoy⠀ ⠀ Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference is celebrated as a sign of multicultural globalism that designates Hawai‘i as the crossroads of the Pacific. Racial inequality is disruptive to the tourist image of the islands. It ruptures the image of tolerance, diversity, and happiness upon which tourism, business, and so many other vested transnational interests in the islands are based. The contributors of this interdisciplinary volume reconsider Hawai‘i as a model of ethnic and multiracial harmony through the lens of race in their analysis of historical events, group relations and individual experiences, and humor, for instance. Beyond Ethnicity examines the dynamics between race, ethnicity, and indigeneity to challenge the primacy of ethnicity and cultural practices for examining difference in the islands while recognizing the significant role of settler colonialism in the islands. This original and thought-provoking volume reveals what a racial analysis illuminates about the current political configuration of the islands and in so doing, challenges how we conceptualize race on the continent.

Now in Paper! Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia. Simon focuses on the tension between the values of social integration and individual autonomy—both of which are celebrated in this Islamic trading society. The book explores a series of ethnographic themes, each one illustrating a facet of this tension and its management in contemporary Minangkabau society: the moral structure of the city and its economic life, the nature of Minangkabau ethnic identity, the etiquette of everyday interactions, conceptions of self and its boundaries, hidden spaces of personal identity, and engagements with Islamic traditions. Simon draws on interviews with Minangkabau men and women, demonstrating how individuals engage with cultural forms and refashion them in the process: forms of etiquette are transformed into a series of symbols tattooed on and then erased from a man’s skin; a woman shares a poem expressing an identity rooted in what cannot be directly revealed; a man puzzles over his neglect of Islamic prayers that have the power to bring him happiness. #uhpress #books #bookworm #indonesia #islam #religiousstudies #ethnic #identity

Now available from UH Press! Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance ⠀ ⠀ Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hōkūle‘a. They speak of growing up at a time when their Hawaiian culture was in danger of extinction; of their vision of sailing ancestral sea-routes; and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hōkūle‘a capsized in a raging storm. We join a young Hawaiian, Nainoa Thompson, as he rediscovers the ancient star signs that guided his ancestors, navigates Hōkūle‘a to Tahiti, and becomes the first Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in a thousand years.

Now in Paper! Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos. This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions—from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state—through the lens of physical culture, Simon Creak's lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even from within, as a country of cheerful but lazy people. Creak argues that sport and related physical practices—including physical education, gymnastics, and military training—have shaped a national consciousness by locating it in everyday experience. These practices are popular, participatory, performative, and, above all, physical in character and embody ideas and ideologies in a symbolic and experiential way. #uhpress #books #bookstagram #laos #sports #masculinity #research #paperback #readup

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