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Na Mele Welo
Author: Nā mele welo
Author: Pat Namaka BaconPublisher:
ISBN: 9780930897871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
82 chants in Hawaiian from Helen Roberts' fieldwork published in her Ancient Hawaiian Music (Bishop Museum bulletin 29), 1929. Includes translations, notes, and brief biographical notes on contributors.
Nā mele welo
Author: Pat Namaka BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chants, Hawaiian
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
82 chants in Hawaiian from Helen Roberts' fieldwork published in her Ancient Hawaiian Music (Bishop Museum bulletin 29), 1929. Includes translations, notes, and brief biographical notes on contributors.
The Folding Cliffs
Author: W. S. MerwinPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375701516
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. Here is the story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing—inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands—of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision.
Hawaiian Legends of Dreams
Author: Caren Loebel-FriedPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824829611
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A retelling of nine Hawaiian legends illustrating the importance of dreams and their interpretation in Hawaiian culture.
Emma
Author: George S. KanahelePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824822408
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
In her reign as queen, Emma both helped Kamehameha IV prevent the extinction of the Hawaiian people during the end of colonial rule and dedicated much of her philanthropic efforts to Hawai'i's education and health care.
Hawaiian Music in Motion
Author: James Revell CarrPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096525
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the nineteenth century. James Revell Carr draws on journals and ships' logs to trace the circulation of Hawaiian song and dance worldwide as Hawaiians served aboard American and European ships. He also examines important issues like American minstrelsy in Hawaii and the ways Hawaiians achieved their own ends by capitalizing on Americans' conflicting expectations and fraught discourse around hula and other musical practices.
Hawaiian Antiquities
Author: Davida MaloPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Author: Herman C. KempPublisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN: 9789794614839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits
Author: Caren Loebel-FriedPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824845803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Ancient Hawaiians lived in a world where all of nature was alive with the spirits of their ancestors. These aumakua have lived on through the ages as family guardians and take on many natural forms, thus linking many Hawaiians to the animals, plants, and natural phenomena of their island home. Individuals have a reciprocal relationship with their guardian spirits and offer worship and sacrifice in return for protection, inspiration, and guidance. Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits is told in words and pictures by award-winning artist Caren Loebel-Fried. The ancient legends are brought to life in sixty beautiful block prints, many vibrantly colored, and narrated in a lively "read-aloud" style, just as storytellers of old may have told them hundreds of years ago. Notes are included, reflecting the careful and extensive research done for this volume at the Bishop Museum Library and Archives in Honolulu and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A short section on the process of creating the block prints that illustrate the book is also included. The matching poster of "A Chance Meeting with the Iiwi" measures 22 x 28 inches.