No Nā Mamo: Traditional and Contemporary Hawaiian Beliefs and Practices, by Malcolm Nāea Chun, is an updated and enlarged compilation of books in the acclaimed Ka Wana series, published in 2005–2010. The books, r [...]
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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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The selected articles found in this publication were extracted from the Hawaiian newspapers for their interesting cultural and ethnographic content, especially since most of the information contained in them is not commonly known today. Most of the selected articles have not been published before an [...]
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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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