This book comes from Patrick Ka`ano`i, a Native Hawaiian trained by his kupuna, and has much wisdom documented nowhere else. Unique to this work is an [...]
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Lomilomi is the traditional art of Hawaiian massage, an ancient practice that is renowned for being a soothing, flowing, gentle, and relaxing experience. But to the healers of old Hawai‘i, lomilomi was much more. As documented by Hawaiians and foreigners beginning in 1779, lomilomi was connected t [...]
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This first publication on the history of licensing medicinal kāhuna has been out-of-print for a long time. Malcolm Nāea Chun has updated his original research with newly discovered information from government records and both Hawaiian and English newspapers. He writes with great authority to show [...]
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This is the third and last volume in a series of translations of Hawai‘i Territorial Department of Health‘s investigations of the “Medicinal Properties and Values of Herbs and Plants grown in the Territory of Hawaii.” Commissioned in 1917 and completed in 1921, this was the last major and sy [...]
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Still considered to be one of “the most important source on ancient Hawaiian culture, written by a man of great intelligence,” Davida Malo’s Ka Mo‘olelo Hawai‘i continues to provide important information about pre and post contact Hawaiian society and culture. It is the earliest detailed a [...]
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