Correcting burial wrongs because the dead have rights: an analysis of native Hawaiian burial issues and the associated burial preservation laws in Hawaii
- Author:
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Gaylord, Kimberlee Alana
- Title:
- Correcting burial wrongs because the dead have rights: an analysis of native Hawaiian burial issues and the associated burial preservation laws in Hawaii
- Periodical:
- Pacific Islands Studies
- Year:
- 2005
- Volume:
- M.A.
- Subject:
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Burial customs
Hawaiians social life and customs
- Summary:
- This document describes how the native Hawaiian burial sites and practices have been ineffectively protected. This is a result of a built-in conflict of interest flaw in Hawaii's preservation laws, one of which is a law that allows contract archaeologists who work on behalf of their developer-employers. Failure in the law is often due to the divergent cultural interpretations of justice and laws that adhere to non-Hawaiian legal expectations and has resulted in the destruction of thousands of native Hawaiian burials. This document gives an overview of native Hawaiian burials and burial practices as well as a description of a number of burial wrongs.
- URL:
- http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/11784
- Date:
- August 2005
- Collection:
- Monographs