Book
The Polynesian family system in Ka-'U, Hawai'i
C. E. Tuttle Co. • Rutland, Vt. • Published In 1972 • Pages:
By: Handy, E. S. Craighill (Edward Smith Craighill), Pukui, Mary Kawena.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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, marriage, death), social stratification, sexual practices, religious beliefs, and family relationships. The main source of information in this document was obtained from elderly Hawaiian informants, supplemented with information from the historical/anthropological literature
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Flora
- Fauna
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Status, role, and prestige
- Castes
- Etiquette
- Arranging a marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Chief executive
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hawaiians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late eighteenth - nineteenth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ka'u District, Island of Hawaii, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by E. S. Craighill Handy and Mary Kawena Pukui. With a concluding chapter on the history and ecology of Ka-'u by Elizabeth Green Handy, and with an introd. to the new ed. by Terence Barrow
- 'First published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society … from 1950 to 1955 under the title of The Hawaiian Family.'
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xx)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75171998
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hawaiians