Title: Indigenous and Authentic: Hawaiian Epistemology and the Triangulation of Meaning
Abstract: In this chapter, Manulani Aluli-Meyer propounds “the triangulation of meaning” or “holographic epistemology” as an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing while challenging the
dominant research worldview based on the Newtonian notion of space. For Aluli-Meyer, the
triangulation of meaning (i.e., the integration of the body, the mind, and the spirit) recognizes
(1) the significance of spirituality in knowing, (2) a deep relationship with space as it feeds us and
shapes our consciousness, (3) a reliance on our uniquely experienced cultural nature of the senses
to expand our idea of empiricism, (4) the primacy of human relationships because knowledge is
a product of interaction and dialogue with others, (5) the purposefulness of knowing, namely, to
heal, to bring together, to challenge, to surprise, to encourage, or to expand our awareness, (6) a
critical self-reflection with a keen awareness of the consequences of language, and (7) the wholeness or the union of the body and the mind in engaging with deeper reality. Like Sarah Amira de
la Garza (Chapter 10), Aluli-Meyer calls attention to the spiritual dimension of knowing and the
unbreakable relationship between humans and nature (land, space, etc.), which are often absent
in Eurocentric research methodologies.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-06-26
Language: en
Type: article
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