Book

Ka po'e kahiko: the people of old

Bishop Museum PressHonolulu • Published In 1968 • Pages: ix, 165

By: Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani, Barrère, Dorothy B., Pukui, Mary Kawena, Feher, Joseph.

Abstract
This document, Ka Po' e Kahiko, is a translation of Samuel Kamakau's articles on Hawaiian history and culture that appeared in a series of weekly newspaper reports that ran from 1866 to 1871. These articles were translated by a group of Hawaiian scholars and put into the present form through the editing of Mary Kawena Pukui and Martha Warren Beckwith, who at the time of the translation, in the 1930s, was professor of folklore at Vassar College. (The second translated work by Kamakau appears in this file as eHRAF document no. 10). Kamakau wrote this study at a time when the Hawaiian people still retained much knowledge of their traditional society at a time of rapid culture change. The major ethnographic topics discussed in this monograph deal with social organization and structure, the family, the spirit world, soul transfiguration, medical practices, and magic and sorcery.
Subjects
Traditional history
Status, role, and prestige
Sorcery
Magical and mental therapy
Burial practices and funerals
Mythology
Eschatology
Spirits and gods
Sacred objects and places
Prayers and sacrifices
Avoidance and taboo
culture
Hawaiians
HRAF PubDate
2003
Region
Oceania
Sub Region
Polynesia
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Types
Ethnologist
Indigenous Person
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle ; 2002
Field Date
no date
Coverage Date
ca. late eighteenth - nineteenth centuries
Coverage Place
Hawaiian Islands, United States
Notes
translated from the newspaper Ke Au 'oko'a by Mary Kawena Pukui ; arranged and edited by Dorothy B. Barrère
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150)
LCCN
66005392
LCSH
Hawaiians