Books published by University of Hawai'i Press

This is the fourth in a series of collected essays by one of today's most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.

This book is designed as an undergraduate course reader offering up-to-date ethnographic research on contemporary Japan to enrich students learning. Based on data collected during the 2000s by eleven well know anthropologists of Japan, the collection explores current social phenomena such as wage work, small businesses, lifestyle choices, food, family and marital relations, childbearing, and aging.

Experienced and novice hikers alike will benefit from the information in this updated and expanded edition of the best-selling The Hikers Guide to O`ahu. The author describes in detail 52 trails that will take you to O`ahu's lush valleys, cascading waterfalls, windswept ridges, and remote seacoasts.

This book explores the world of surfboard making as a global industry. Based on researches, interviews in Hawaii, California, and Australia, this book constructs stories of challenges local, independent surfboard shapers encounter in the face of billion dollar, mass production surfing industry such as Billabong and Quicksilver.

Highlights the complex and often wrenching interactions between long-established religious traditions and rapid social, cultural, and economic change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, it is one of the first studies to give readers a sense of what is happening as the role of Buddhists priests in society begins to change.