11 research outputs found
Penny Van Esterik, Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy, New Brunswick, New Yersey: Rutgers University Press, 1989. 242 pages, U.S. 30.00 (cloth)
Jay RUBY (ed.), A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. 299 pages, US $20.00 (cloth)
Adjudication of Student Awareness in Professional Socialization: The Language of Laughter and Silences
Recovering the Early History of Canadian Criminology: Criminology at the University of British Columbia, 1951–1959
'Putting up your Dukes': Statues, social memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku
Public statues that commemorate the lives and achievements of athletes are pervasive and influential forms of social memory in Western societies. Despite this important nexus between cultural practice and history making, there is a relative void of critical studies of statuary dedicated to athletes. This article will attempt to contribute to a broader understanding in this area by considering a bronze statue of Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian Olympian, swimmer and surfer, at Waikīkī, Hawaii. This prominent monument demonstrates the processes of remembering and forgetting that are integral to acts of social memory. In this case, Kahanamoku's identity as a surfer is foregrounded over his legacy as a swimmer. The distillation and use of Kahanamoku's memory in this representation is enmeshed in deeper cultural forces about Hawaii's identity. Competing meanings of the statue's symbolism indicate its role as a 'hollow icon', and illustrate the way that apparently static objects representing the sporting past are in fact objects of the present