The Story of Hawaii: History, Customs, Mythology, Geography & Archaeology
History, Mythology, Archaeology, and Cultural Memory of the Hawaiian IslandsBy Gerard Fowke, Nathaniel Bright Emerson, King of Hawaii David Kalakaua, James Jackson Jarves, United States Census Bureau, William Richards Castle
Length43h 1m
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The Story of Hawaii: History, Customs, Mythology, Geography & Archaeology assembles a capacious portrait of the islands, bringing historical narrative into conversation with ethnographic observation, royal tradition, demographic record, geographical description, and archaeological inquiry. Its range of prose—from documentary accounts and interpretive history to mythic materials and statistical reporting—reveals Hawaii as both a lived Indigenous world and a contested site of modern knowledge-making. Accounts of sacred custom and oral tradition stand alongside surveys of land, population, and material remains, making the volume especially valuable for tracing the relations between memory, place, and governance. The contributors represent distinct institutional and cultural positions: a Hawaiian king and cultural custodian, scholars of Hawaiian tradition and antiquities, historians, and governmental compilers. Together, their writings belong to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century formation of Hawaiian historiography, anthropology, archaeology, and colonial-era administration. Their varied perspectives illuminate both the endurance of Native Hawaiian intellectual traditions and the classificatory impulses through which outside observers sought to describe the islands. The collection's plurality makes visible the agreements, tensions, and omissions embedded in archival knowledge. Recommended for students, researchers, and general readers of Pacific history, this volume offers an unusually rich single-volume introduction to Hawaii's cultural and historical complexity. It rewards attentive reading with multiple styles of evidence and a sustained dialogue between tradition, record, and interpretation.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length43 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE ALASKA ACCOUNT of John Muir: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated)
2General Information
3Basic Information
4History
5About the Geographic Areas
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6Centers of Population
7Most Populous, Largest, and Dense Areas
8Hawaiian History
9THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE
10HAWAIIAN HISTORY TO 1898
11HAWAII AS AN AMERICAN TERRITORY
12Archaeological Discoveries in Hawaii
13INTRODUCTION
14MOLOKAI ISLAND
15HAWAII ISLAND
16MAUI ISLAND
17KAUAI ISLAND
18CONCLUSIONS
19The Volcanoes Of Hawaii
20Customs and Tradition
21Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
22INTRODUCTION
23I.--THE HULA
24II.--THE HALAU; THE KUAHU--THEIR DECORATION AND CONSECRATION
25III.--THE GODS OF THE HULA.
26IV.--SUPPORT AND ORGANIZATION OF THE HULA
27V--CEREMONIES OF GRADUATION; DÉBUT OF A HULA DANCER
28VI.--THE PASSWORD--THE SONG OF ADMISSION
29VII.--WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF THE HALAU
30VIII.--COSTUME OF THE HULA DANCER
31IX.--THE HULA ALA'A-PAPA
32X.--THE HULA PA-ÍPU, OR KUÓLO
33XI.--THE HULA KI'I
34XII.--THE HULA PAHU
35XIII.--THE HULA ÚLI-ULÍ
36XIV.--THE HULA PUÍLI
37XV.--THE HULA KA-LAAU
38XVI.--THE HULA ÍLI-ÍLI
39XVII.--THE HULA KÁ-ÉKE-ÉKE
40XVIII.--AN INTERMISSION
41XIX.--THE HULA MAU-KANI
42XX.--THE HULA OHE
43XXI.--THE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE HAWAIIANS
44XXII.--GESTURE
45XXIII.--THE HULA PA-HUA
46XXIV--THE HULA PELE
47XXV.--THE HULA PA'I-UMAUMA
48XXVI.--THE HULA KU'I MOLOKAI
49XXVII.--THE HULA KIELÉI
50XXVIII.--THE HULA MÚ'U-MÚ'U
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