Mauna Kea: Two Cultures and the 'Imiloa Astronomy Center

摘要

When Snow wrote delivered his lecture on 'The Two Cultures' in 1959, he considered this to be a phenomenon that had British, Western and global significance. This article looks at how Snow's ideas play out in the setting of Hawai'i from the early contact with Western navigators through to current disputes over the building of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea. 'Mutual incomprehension', identified by Snow as the chief characteristics of his two cultures are clearly seen to be at play in Western-Hawai'ian encounters.