Wow
I just watched a video from the Kane Kahiko category of the 2008 Merrie Monarch festival. I feel like I've been watching porn at work, even though logically I know this is a beautiful and important tradition that just happens to involve muscled men wearing fewer clothes than I'm used to seeing. (I don't know that the climate here would support wearing less, mind you!)
They only came second that year, but won this year and last.
Unwritten history and legend not just through oral saga, but dance!
The total nerd in me wonders if that has influenced metaphors for things, the way some English speakers say "I see" to mean "I understand" whereas the Suyá say "I have it in my ear". The history around the English language as I speak it (and, more, the way I'm used to having it transmitted) means I can easily come up with statements about things being "carved into history", or "engraved into the public consciousness" -- if I asked a Hawai'ian speaker, would I find out that the history of using hula to pass knowledge made it into the spoken language? Sadly, I lost touch with the Hawai'ian speakers I knew years ago, so I'm looking online. It's not the most common of queries, I bet, but I'll see what I can find out.
In other news, it's Friday, it's payday, it's the last day of work before a long weekend, and my housemate passed his CASC exam. He's now eligible to become a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists! Yippee!
They only came second that year, but won this year and last.
Click to viewUnwritten history and legend not just through oral saga, but dance!
The total nerd in me wonders if that has influenced metaphors for things, the way some English speakers say "I see" to mean "I understand" whereas the Suyá say "I have it in my ear". The history around the English language as I speak it (and, more, the way I'm used to having it transmitted) means I can easily come up with statements about things being "carved into history", or "engraved into the public consciousness" -- if I asked a Hawai'ian speaker, would I find out that the history of using hula to pass knowledge made it into the spoken language? Sadly, I lost touch with the Hawai'ian speakers I knew years ago, so I'm looking online. It's not the most common of queries, I bet, but I'll see what I can find out.
In other news, it's Friday, it's payday, it's the last day of work before a long weekend, and my housemate passed his CASC exam. He's now eligible to become a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists! Yippee!