Hawaiian mythology / with a new introduction by Katharine Luomala.
Material type: TextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1970Description: xxxiii, 575 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0870220624
- 398.2/09969
- BL2620.H3 B4 1970
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Originally published in 1940.
Includes bibliographic references (p. [545]-555).
Part 1 - The gods. Part 2 - Children of the gods. Part 3 - The chiefs. Hawaiian mythology. Part 4 - Heroes and lovers in fiction
'Why, after thirty years, should Beckwith's Hawaiian Mythology be reprinted? Why, for the last twenty-five years, have scholars and amateurs alike sought for either new or used copies of this book which has become a rarity? To begin with, it was the first, and is still the only, scholarly work which charts a pathway through the hundreds of books and articles, many of them obscure and scarce, and through the little-known manuscripts that record the orally transmitted myths, legends, traditions, folktales, and romances of the Hawaiian people.' --Introduction
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