Correcting burial wrongs because the dead have rights: an analysis of native Hawaiian burial issues and the associated burial preservation laws in Hawaii

Author:

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:

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