Where are the Men? Indigeneity and Masculinity Realigned

Abstract

Ty P. Kāwika Tengan's Native Men Remade. Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i documents how a group of Indigenous Hawaiian men (including the author), as part of a broader cultural nationalist movement, is reworking notions of masculinity and indigeneity by recreating a modern-day warriorhood. While praising the work for expanding anthropological methods and writing, the present review essay explores a question at the core of the book, namely how we can conceptualise...