Hawaiian Customs And Beliefs Relating To Sickness And Death
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Hawaiian Customs and Beliefs Relating to Sickness and Death
Author | : Laura Capron Spring Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Funeral rites and ceremonies |
ISBN | : |
Death and Religion: The Basics
Author | : Candi K. Cann |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2022-12-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0429655878 |
Death and Religion: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to dying, death, grief, and conceptions of the afterlife in world religions. It leads readers through considerations of how we understand meanings of death and after-death, and the theories and practices attached to these states of being, with recourse to various religious worldviews: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Chinese Religions, and Native American belief systems. This inter-religious approach provides a rich, dynamic survey of varying and evolving cultural attitudes to death. Topics covered include: Religious perspectives of "the good death" Grief, bereavement, and mourning Stages and definitions of death Burial, cremation, and disposition Remembrance rituals Religious theories of the afterlife Death and technology Featuring a glossary, suggestions for further reading in each chapter and key terms, this is the ideal text for students approaching the intersection of death and religion for the first time, and those in the fields of religious studies, thanatology, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology.
Hawaiian Mythology
Author | : Martha Warren Beckwith |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0824840712 |
Ku and Hina—man and woman—were the great ancestral gods of heaven and earth for the ancient Hawaiians. They were life's fruitfulness and all the generations of mankind, both those who are to come and those already born. The Hawaiian gods were like great chiefs from far lands who visited among the people, entering their daily lives sometimes as humans or animals, sometimes taking residence in a stone or wooden idol. As years passed, the families of gods grew and included the trickster Maui, who snared the sun, and fiery Pele of the volcano. Ancient Hawaiians lived by the animistic philosophy that assigned living souls to animals, trees, stones, stars, and clouds, as well as to humans. Religion and mythology were interwoven in Hawaiian culture; and local legends and genealogies were preserved in song, chant, and narrative. Martha Beckwith was the first scholar to chart a path through the hundreds of books, articles, and little-known manuscripts that recorded the oral narratives of the Hawaiian people. Her book has become a classic work of folklore and ethnology, and the definitive treatment of Hawaiian mythology. With an introduction by Katherine Luomala.
Kingship and Sacrifice
Author | : Valerio Valeri |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1985-06-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226845605 |
Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
Sharks upon the Land
Author | : Seth Archer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2018-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107174562 |
A study of colonialism and indigenous health in Hawaiʻi, highlighting cultural change over time.
Hawaiian Legends in English
Author | : A. Grove Day |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0824885007 |
Over the past two centuries, a considerable number of Hawaiian legends have been translated into English. Although this material has been the subject of studies in anthropology, ethnology, and comparative mythology, no study has been made made of the translations and the translators themselves. Nor has a definitive bibliography of published translations been compiled. The purpose of this volume is to provide an extensive, annotated bibliography of both primary translations and secondary retellings in English, together with a historical and critical study of the more important translations.
Culture and Behavior in Hawaii
Author | : Judith Rubano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
The Gifts of Civilization
Author | : O. A. Bushnell |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824841794 |
In 1778 Captain James Cook made his first visit to the Hawaiian Islands. The members of his expedition and subsequent visitors brought to the previously isolated Hawaiian people new things, novel ideas, and, of greatest consequence, devastating alien germs. The infectious diseases introduced since 1778 have claimed more Hawaiian lives than all other causes of death combined. During their long isolation in space and time, Hawaiians had not been exposed to the many microbes that afflicted populations in other parts of the world. They had developed no immunity to those germs and gained no experiences to enable them to endure the sicknesses the newly introduced germs caused. That terrible vulnerability to foreigners' diseases has almost destroyed Hawaiian society and culture. The nine essays in this collection discuss the impact of these "gifts of civilization" upon the native Hawaiian people and upon the social history of Hawai‘i. Dr. Bushnell constructs a concise historical framework, including an examination of the native medical profession, and interprets the few facts known about it in light of present knowledge in the medical sciences. He presents information, opinions, and conclusions harvested from many years of thinking about the fate of native Hawaiian people, studying all the relevant documents, and writing about this and related subjects.