Published: 2025-12-23

The Last Kapu: Limits in the Modern Hawaiian Practice of Tolerance

Edward Martinek
Gdańsk Studies
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2025-016

Abstract

Abstract

Why study the concept of tolerance in Modern Hawaii?

It is my thesis that once we accept aloha spirit is equivalent to the definitions of tolerance, several anthropological insights are possible:

  1. We realize that the present depends upon the values from the past.
  2. We discover that a discrepancy exists between past and present views of aloha.
  3. We learn that Hawaiians view time differently.
  4. To resolve conflict in values, we observe that Hawaiians either change the past to meet the requirements of the present or change the present to correspond to the tradition of the past.
  5. We recognize that modern Hawaiians highly value ethnic diversity.
  6. The bond between past and present always exists and is sacred, i.e., kapu.

Keywords:

aloha, balance, colonial, harmony, Hawaii, kapu, tolerance

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Martinek, E. (2025). The Last Kapu: Limits in the Modern Hawaiian Practice of Tolerance. Gdańsk Studies, 57, 78–101. https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2025-016

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