Documents
eHRAF is comprised of thousands of ethnographic sources including monographs, journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts. Use this page to find relevant documents by searching or filtering. Each document in eHRAF also contains a Publication Information page with added metadata including brief abstracts written by HRAF analysts who have subject-indexed the file.
The Polynesian family system in Ka-'U, Hawai'iBook 1972 • Handy, E. S. Craighill (Edward Smith Craighill) & Pukui, Mary Kawena
Hawaiians • Oceania > Polynesia
This book presents a review of traditional Hawaiian life, focusing primarily on the time period of the late eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth. The data cover accounts of the spirits and gods, the kinship system, life cycle events (birth...The works of the people of old =essay 1976 • Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani et al.
Hawaiians • Oceania > Polynesia
This work, Na Hana a ka Po'e Kahiko, is a sequel to Ka Po'e Kahiko (see Kamakau 1964, eHRAF document no. 9 in this file), both of which are translations by Mary Kawena Pukui from Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau's series of newspaper articles which ran fr...Native planters in old HawaiiBook 1972 • Handy, E. S. Craighill (Edward Smith Craighill) et al.
Hawaiians • Oceania > Polynesia
This study, originally made in the 1930s, is an appraisal of traditional horticulture as it existed in the Hawaiian Islands prior to Euro-American contact. The work describes in detail the various plants raised by the Hawaiians, the types of location...Ka po'e kahikoBook 1968 • Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani et al.
Hawaiians • Oceania > Polynesia
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 scho...