Books published by University of Hawai'i Press

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tongan migrant mothers and adult daughters in Australia, anthropologist Makiko Nishitani provides a unique account of how gifts, money, and information flow along the connections of kin and kin-like relationships.

A cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, this book explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll. Greg Dvorak delves into personal narratives and collective mythologies from contradictory vantage points, navigating the tensions between ""little stories"" of ordinary human actors and ""big stories"" of global politics.

In this convincing and provocative study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro.

Analyses popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society. It focuses on five representative conditions currently classified as shgai (disabilities) in Japan and explores the complexities and sociocultural issues surrounding each.

Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this groundbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of ""contextual theologians,"" exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands' culture and Christianity shapes theological dialogues.