Mary Kawena Pukui (1895–1986)
Autor de New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary: With a Concise Grammar and Given Names in Hawaiian
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Mary Kawena Pukui
New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary: With a Concise Grammar and Given Names in Hawaiian (1992) 213 copias
Na Mele Welo: Songs of Our Heritage: Selections from Roberts Mele Collection in Bishop Museum, Honolulu (1995) 11 copias
Volume III. Pacific knowledge, traditions, and perspectives. — Autor — 1 copia
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Life in the Pacific of the 1700s: The Cook/Forster Collection of the Georg August Un (2006) — Autor — 3 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Pukui, Mary Kawena
- Nombre legal
- Pukui, Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopelekawahineʻaihonuaināleilehuaapele Wiggin
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1895
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1986
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Kaʻū district, Island of Hawaiʻi, Republic of Hawaii
- Lugares de residencia
- Hawaii, USA
- Educación
- Hawaiian Mission Academy
- Ocupaciones
- translator
teacher
composer
anthropologist
author - Organizaciones
- Punahou School
- Premios y honores
- Living Treasure of Hawai'i (1977)
Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame (1995)
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 26
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 798
- Popularidad
- #31,948
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 39
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
Nana I Ke Kumu (Look to the Source) describes Hawaiian beliefs and customs, bridging Hawai'i's past with the present. In the early 1970s, workers at the Queen Lili'uokaliani Children's Center, to better understand and meet the needs of the Hawaiian families they served, began to research authentic Hawaiian culture. Much of the books' material was distilled from seven years of the Center's Hawaiian Cultural Cimmittee's weekly meetings.
Senior author Mary Kawena Pukui believed that 'the Hawaiian needs to understand and appreciate the soundness and beauty of his culture.' Pukui was an ideal participant in this project, having been raised in two cultures, the Hawaiian familiy line of kahuna on her mother's side and the New England heritage of her father. She contributed valuable information from her life experience.
Volume One interprets specific Hawaiian words and phrases and was meant to 'clarify distorted beliefs, suggest the rationale behind Hawaiian ritual, and convey some of the poetic imagery of anicent rites and their underlying concepts.'
Volume Two deals with broader concepts and relationships, including such topics as the child, man and woman, dreams and symbols, holiness and healing. It restates the theme of understanding more fully the influences of Hawaiian culture on life today.
Contents
Foreword
Author's preface
Acknowledgments
Hawaiian topic index and reference
(Bold face type indicates terms of concepts listed and discussed as separate topics. References which define terms or provide some significant information within topic listings are in light-face type. Hawaiian terms merely repeated or used in translated conversations are not indexed.… (más)