Author: Davida MALO
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Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: David Malo
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513223879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Hawaiian Antiquities (1898) is an ethnography by David Malo. Originally published in 1838, Hawaiian Antiquities, or Moolelo Hawaii, was updated through the end of Malo’s life and later translated into English by Nathaniel Bright Emerson, a leading scholar of Hawaiian mythology. As the culmination of Malo’s research on Hawaiian history, overseen by missionary Sheldon Dibble, Hawaiian Antiquities was the first in-depth written history of the islands and its people. “The ancients left no records of the lands of their birth, of what people drove them out, who were their guides and leaders, of the canoes that transported them, what lands they visited in their wanderings, and what gods they worshipped. Certain oral traditions do, however, give us the names of the idols of our ancestors.” As inheritor of this ancient oral tradition, David Malo, a recent Christian convert who studied reading and writing with missionaries, provides an essential introduction to the genealogies, history, traditions, and stories of his people. Engaging with the legends passed down from ancient generations as well as the flora and fauna of the islands in his own day, Malo links the Hawaii of the past to the world in which he lived, a time of political and religious change introduced by missionaries from the newly formed United States. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of David Malo’s Hawaiian Antiquities is a classic work of Hawaiian literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
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Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Author: David W. Forbes
Publisher: Hawaiian Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Tom Smith
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501777424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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In Word Across the Water, Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai'i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As self-styled interpreters of history, missionaries produced narratives to stoke interest in their cause, locating US imperial interventions and their own evangelistic projects within divinely ordained historical trajectories. As missionaries worked in the shadow of their nation's empire, however, their religiously inflected historical narratives came to serve an alternative purpose. They emerged as a way for missionaries to negotiate their own status between the imperial and the local and to come to terms with the diverse spaces, peoples, and traditions of historical narration that they encountered across different island groups. Word Across the Water encourages scholars of empire and religion alike to acknowledge both the pernicious nature of imperial claims over oceanic space underpinned by religious and historical arguments, and the fragility of those claims on the ground.

Author: British Library (London)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Davida Malo
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Ken Hedges
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Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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