In Haste with Aloha : Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881–1885

This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonālani. __In Haste with Aloha__ illuminates the last five years of the Queen’s life and makes available an important record of royal social life and customs in nineteenth-century Hawai‘i. Much of her earlier correspondence has been published in two books by the late Alfons L. Korn: __The Victorian Visitors: An Account of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1861–1866__ and __News from Molokai: Letters between Peter Kaeo and Queen Emma, 1873–1876.__ In her letters, almost all of which were written in English, Queen Emma provides a rare account of ali‘i (royal) perspective, endowing modern readers and researchers with insight far beyond the limited available documentation of public speeches or printed statements. Besides the nuances of correspondence between the Queen and her recipients, there is much to be considered and analyzed in her descriptions of ali‘i, many of them relatives to Emma, including Bernice Pauahi Bishop and Ruth Ke‘elikōlani. With few comparable Hawaiian historical primary resource texts in print, __In Haste with Aloha__ is a welcome addition, making accessible a preserved and treasured collection of documents drawn primarily from the Hawai‘i State Archives, along with diaries in Bishop Museum Library and Archives. Fully transcribed and with annotation by Forbes, editor of the monumental four-volume __Hawaiian National Bibliography__ and annotator of __Hawaii____’____s Story by Hawaii____’____s Queen Liliuokalani,__ this text sheds light on the lives of Hawai‘i’s ruling class in the decade leading up to climactic political transition. This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonālani. In Haste with Aloha illuminates the last five years of the Queen’s life and makes available an important record of royal social life and customs in nineteenth-century Hawai‘i. Much of her earlier correspondence has been published in two books by the late Alfons L. Korn: The Victorian Visitors: An Account of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1861–1866 and News from Molokai: Letters between Peter Kaeo and Queen Emma, 1873–1876. In her letters, almost all of which were written in English, Queen Emma provides a rare account of ali‘i (royal) perspective, endowing modern readers and researchers with insight far beyond the limited available documentation of public speeches or printed statements. Besides the nuances of correspondence between the Queen and her recipients, there is much to be considered and analyzed in her descriptions of ali‘i, many of them relatives to Emma, including Bernice Pauahi Bishop and Ruth Ke‘elikōlani. With few comparable Hawaiian historical primary resource texts in print, In Haste with Aloha is a welcome addition, making accessible a preserved and treasured collection of documents drawn primarily from the Hawai‘i State Archives, along with diaries in Bishop Museum Library and Archives. Fully transcribed and with annotation by Forbes, editor of the monumental four-volume Hawaiian National Bibliography and annotator of Hawaii ’ s Story by Hawaii ’ s Queen Liliuokalani, this text sheds light on the lives of Hawai‘i’s ruling class in the decade leading up to climactic political transition.

Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of human development and a theoretical consideration of how any ethnopsychology is embedded in society and culture. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, Nancy Eberhardt illustrates how indigenous theories of the life course are connected to local constructions of self and personhood. In the process, she draws our attention to contrasting models in the Euro-American tradition and invites us to reconsider how we think about the trajectory of a human life.

Moving beyond the entrenched categories that can hamper our understanding of other views, Imagining the Course of Life demonstrates the real-life connections between the "religious" and the "psychological." Eberhardt shows how such beliefs and practices are used, sometimes strategically, in people's constructions of themselves, in their interpretations of others' behavior, and in their attempts at social positioning. Individual chapters explore Shan ideas about the overall course of human development, from infancy to old age and beyond, and show how these ideas inform people’s understanding of personhood and maturity, gender and social inequality, illness and well-being, emotions and mental health.

CONTENTS NOTES ON EDITING THE LETTERS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Chapter One. The Family of Four Is Reduced-1880 Chapter Two. Rooke House under Quarantine. Diary Entries-1881 Chapter Three. Town Gossip and an Excursion to Maui. Letters of June-December 1881 Chapter Four. A Busy Spring and Summer. Letters of February-July 1882 Chapter Five. Summer Entertainments, Church Matters, and a Visit to Kōhala. Letters of August-December 1882 Chapter Six. The Year of the Coronation. Letters of 1883 Chapter Seven. The Gathering Clouds. A Diary and Letters-1884 Chapter Eight. The Fateful Trip to Kōhala- July- August 1884 Chapter Nine. Last Letters and the Final Farewell-1885 Chapter Ten. “The Good Queen Is Gone”. A Letter from the Priory-1885 Chapter Eleven. Lying in State at Rooke House, and the Funeral at Kawaiaha‘o Church-1885 Notes Index ABOUT THE AUTHOR