Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology
Karin Amimoto Ingersoll
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Description
In Waves of Knowing Karin Amimoto Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a sensorial, intellectual, and embodied literacy of the ocean. As the source from which Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) draw their essence and identity, the sea is foundational to Kanaka epistemology and ontology. Analyzing oral histories, chants, artwork, poetry, and her experience as a surfer, Ingersoll shows how this connection to the sea has been crucial to resisting two centuries of colonialism, militarism, and tourism. In today's neocolonial context--where continued occupation and surf tourism marginalize indigenous Hawaiians--seascape epistemology as expressed by traditional cultural practices such as surfing, fishing, and navigating provides the tools for generating an alternative indigenous politics and ethics. In relocating Hawaiian identity back to the waves, currents, winds, and clouds, Ingersoll presents a theoretical alternative to land-centric viewpoints that still dominate studies of place-making and indigenous epistemology.
Product Details
Price
$29.84
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publish Date
November 02, 2016
Pages
216
Dimensions
5.9 X 9.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780822362340
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About the Author
Karin Amimoto Ingersoll is an independent scholar, writer, and surfer based in Honolulu, Hawaii. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Reviews
"Conveying the beauty and meaning of hee nalu to Hawaiians past and present, with water photos by her husband, Russell J. Amimoto, Waves of Knowing is an impassioned and informative call to surfers to be responsible to ourselves, our community and our shared, beloved sea."--Mindy Pennybacker "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" (1/8/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Despite the limitations of writing in the English language, Waves of Knowing is an elegant way of articulating an indigenous Hawaiian epistemology.... This book is a valuable contribution to the literature on indigenous methodology, and will also contribute to the growing literature in critical surf studies."--Dina Gilio-Whitaker "Fourth World Journal" (7/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"This beautifully written book makes a valuable contribution to articulating indigenous epistemologies, and offers concrete suggestions for how Kanaka Maoli ways of knowing can be translated into practices which empower indigenous and local knowledge and skills, affirm cultural identity, and care for both the land and seascapes."--Tui Nicola Clery "Pacific Affairs" (3/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"Waves of Knowing is an important contribution. . . . It helps us understand what has been lost but which is being recovered; it gives us insight into surfing and how new hybrid forms exist in the present but respect the past; and, most importantly, it helps give understanding of, and momentum to, ways of knowing our environment that provide critical alternatives to dominant epistemologies and the unsustainable and capricious economies they inform."--John Overton "Asia Pacific Viewpoint" (12/6/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"As a methodological exploration into the ways in which personal history, cultural connectivity, imperial history, and commercialization of recreation can be woven through a story of encounters with (and in) a specific space, Waves of Knowing is a fascinating book."--Philip Steinberg "Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography" (5/3/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"Although emphasized for practice-based or place-based education, the fields of philosophy, English, and history may also benefit from Ingersoll's work, which is a brilliant example of an Indigenous way of knowing that is shaped from the epistemological complexity of the movement of the ocean through which insight into an ontologically formed Hawaiian identity is also provided."--Amy Farrell-Morneau "Native American and Indigenous Studies" (4/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"Waves of Knowing is an intimate discussion of both external and internal realities found both in the politics of Hawaiʻi and within the author's perception. Ingersoll eschews a colonial-variety, empirical world (knowledge without the nuance of dreams or intuition) and instead explores a dynamic, place-based, historic memory empowerment which becomes its own living archive. . . . Ingersoll works to re-code this fluid sensibility back into our thinking so feeling and emotion can respectfully re-enter our cognitive reality."--Manulani Aluli Meyer "Indigenous Knowledge" (12/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Despite the limitations of writing in the English language, Waves of Knowing is an elegant way of articulating an indigenous Hawaiian epistemology.... This book is a valuable contribution to the literature on indigenous methodology, and will also contribute to the growing literature in critical surf studies."--Dina Gilio-Whitaker "Fourth World Journal" (7/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"This beautifully written book makes a valuable contribution to articulating indigenous epistemologies, and offers concrete suggestions for how Kanaka Maoli ways of knowing can be translated into practices which empower indigenous and local knowledge and skills, affirm cultural identity, and care for both the land and seascapes."--Tui Nicola Clery "Pacific Affairs" (3/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"Waves of Knowing is an important contribution. . . . It helps us understand what has been lost but which is being recovered; it gives us insight into surfing and how new hybrid forms exist in the present but respect the past; and, most importantly, it helps give understanding of, and momentum to, ways of knowing our environment that provide critical alternatives to dominant epistemologies and the unsustainable and capricious economies they inform."--John Overton "Asia Pacific Viewpoint" (12/6/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"As a methodological exploration into the ways in which personal history, cultural connectivity, imperial history, and commercialization of recreation can be woven through a story of encounters with (and in) a specific space, Waves of Knowing is a fascinating book."--Philip Steinberg "Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography" (5/3/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"Although emphasized for practice-based or place-based education, the fields of philosophy, English, and history may also benefit from Ingersoll's work, which is a brilliant example of an Indigenous way of knowing that is shaped from the epistemological complexity of the movement of the ocean through which insight into an ontologically formed Hawaiian identity is also provided."--Amy Farrell-Morneau "Native American and Indigenous Studies" (4/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"Waves of Knowing is an intimate discussion of both external and internal realities found both in the politics of Hawaiʻi and within the author's perception. Ingersoll eschews a colonial-variety, empirical world (knowledge without the nuance of dreams or intuition) and instead explores a dynamic, place-based, historic memory empowerment which becomes its own living archive. . . . Ingersoll works to re-code this fluid sensibility back into our thinking so feeling and emotion can respectfully re-enter our cognitive reality."--Manulani Aluli Meyer "Indigenous Knowledge" (12/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
