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The Importance of Language And Culture:
Communication There are two forms of communications–verbal and non-verbal. Non-verbal can include art, sign language, facial expressions, graffiti, street signs and instrumental music. Verbal of course is restricted to sounds from our throats but these sounds from information. Specific sounds sends us encoded messages or signals which we call words. When a listener picks up… — read more
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Article Repost: "Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Study of the Kawi Language: The Proof of the Existence of the Malayan-Polynesian Language Culture"
Article repost on Humboldt’s Study of the Kawi language. Ed. Note. The author believes that there exist a connection between Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) languages which was rejected by Humboldt and by most trained linguists, archaeologists, and anthropologists today. I am repost the article because of the context of Humboldt’s original findings. Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Study of… — read more
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The Role of Language in the Thought Process
For most people, the use of words and language itself is unquestioned. We do not realize how language and words itself can shape perceptions and the thought process and in turn shapes our culture. This is one of the factors that people do not consider in depth when discussing Austronesian linguistics. In general, people will… — read more
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Iā ʻOe e ka Lā: Around the World with King Kalākaua Part 1
Iā ʻOe e ka Lā: Around the World with King Kalākaua [This is Part One of an essay I wrote and which was originally published in the O’iwi Native Hawaiian Literary Journal V. 2. I’m posting this part since this deals with a forgotten part of the history of the Pan-Malayan Movement and therefore is… — read more
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Honoring Filipino Ancestors: Building Balangay
Article Repost Honoring Filipino Ancestors: Building Balangay from: http://www.adaphobic.com/honoring-filipino-ancestors-building-balangay/ The Voyage of the Balangay has just started last June 2009. In Manila, the Balangay landed near Harbor Square, Manila Bay. We conquered the stormy weather just to experience the great ancient vessel: the Balangay. Balangay was used by our ancestors to sail across the the… — read more
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Hawaiian Lua or Martial Arts
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Hawaiian Traditional Weaponry
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The Making of a Keris
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A Short Documentary about the Hokule’a
A short documentary about the Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokule’a. — read more
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Flood Stories: A Key to Understanding Austronesian Migrations
Flooding during Typhoon Ondoy, Manila, 2009 One of the most controversial topics about Austronesians (besides race, which I will get into some other time) is about origins. Most people are already aware of the standard theory of Austronesian migration–the Out of Taiwan theory. But many are not away of another theory that has slowly gained… — read more
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Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp 