{"id":1167,"date":"2026-01-12T00:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/hawaii-a-kingdom-crossing-oceans-review-a-feather-filled-thriller-full-of-gods-gourds-and-ghosts\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:21:41","slug":"hawaii-a-kingdom-crossing-oceans-review-a-feather-filled-thriller-full-of-gods-gourds-and-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/hawaii-a-kingdom-crossing-oceans-review-a-feather-filled-thriller-full-of-gods-gourds-and-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans review \u2013 a feather-filled thriller full of gods, gourds and ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Museum, LondonThis retelling of Captain Cook\u2019s death and the merging of two cultures is a trove of miraculously preserved wonders \u2013 but beware of the shark-toothed club!Relations between Britain and the Pacific kingdom of Hawaii didn\u2019t get off to a great start. On 14 February 1779 the global explorer James Cook was clubbed and stabbed to death at Hawaii\u2019s Kealakekua Bay in a dispute over a boat: it was a tragedy of cultural misunderstanding that still has anthropologists arguing over its meaning. Cook had previously visited Hawaii and apparently been identified as the god Lono, but didn\u2019t know this. Marshall Sahlins argued that Cook was killed because by coming twice he transgressed the Lono myth, while another anthropologist, Gananath Obeyesekere, attacked him for imposing colonialist assumptions of \u201cnative\u201d irrationality on the Hawaiians.It\u2019s a fascinating, contentious debate. But the aftermath of Cook\u2019s death is less well known \u2013 and the British Museum\u2019s telling of it, in collaboration with indigenous Hawaii curators, community leaders and artists, reveals a surprisingly complex if doomed encounter between different cultures. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Museum, LondonThis retelling of Captain Cook\u2019s death and the merging of two cultures is a trove of miraculously preserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}