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“While Okinawa has a unique and majestic natural environment, urban areas have this chaotic landscape. In addition, typhoons occur throughout the year, and one must be prepared for disasters. In such an environment, the challenge was to maintain distance from the city and to ensure a comfortable indoor environment. The client requested to live with... See more
instagram.comFurthermore, Luau produces a gendered regulation of Native bodies.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Unwilling to tax his people into starvation, the king gazed at the warships in the harbor and begged Britain to take over his lands and debts. This "tragic episode," as Leo Tolstoy called it in an essay against imperialism, ended in 1874 with Britain taking possession of the more than three hundred islands of Fiji.
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
luau as a form of imperial hospitality between soldiers and islanders.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
I focus on this film because it is typical of the military's sustained interest in hula, but exceptional in its professional production value.