Island Surfing Sites: A Cultural Field Study

Island Surfing Sites: A Cultural Field Study provides students with an understanding of surf culture in the Pacific Basin by using various islands as models to highlight the importance of surfing in ancient and modern cultures in Hawaii. Field activities may include surfing demonstrations and instruction, opportunities to speak with local actors, and field trips to various cultural sites, museums, beach clean-ups and sustainability related events to study change in Hawaii’s surfing heritage over time. This elective course provides students with an experiential ethnographic opportunity that is critical to anthropology as a discipline and complementary to other courses offered by the college.