TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eckstein, Lars
T1  - Hawaiki according to Tupaia
T2  - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA ; a quarterly of language, literature and culture
N2  - This essay looks into the concept of an ancestral homeland in Remote Oceania, commonly referred to as Hawaiki (‘Avaiki; Havai‘i; Hawai‘i). Hawaiki intriguingly challenges Eurocentric notions of ‘home.’ Following the rapid settlement of the so-called Polynesian triangle from Samoa/Tonga at around 1000 AD, Hawaiki has emerged as a concept that is both mythological and real; genealogical and geographic; singular and yet portable, existing in plural regional manifestations. I argue that predominantly Pakeha/Popa‘ā research trying to identify Hawaiki as a singular and geographically fixed homeland is misleading. I tap into the archive surrounding the Ra‘iātean tahu‘a and master navigator Tupaia who joined Captain Cook’s crew during his first voyage to the Pacific to offer glimpses of an alternative ontology of home and epistemology of Oceanic ‘homing.’
KW  - Hawaiki
KW  - Tupaia’s Map
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Indigenous ontology and epistemology
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/58587
SN  - 0044-2305
SN  - 2196-4726
VL  - 71
IS  - 1
SP  - 55
EP  - 69
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -