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The Mo'olelo Hawai'i of Davida Malo Volume 1 - Ka 'Olelo Kumu (Hardcover)
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The Mo'olelo Hawai'i of Davida Malo Volume 1 - Ka 'Olelo Kumu (Hardcover)
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Davida Malo's Mo'olelo Hawai'i is the single most important
description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795,
twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawai'i,
wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts of
ancestral chiefs to religion and government to traditional
amusements. The heart of this two-volume work is a new, critically
edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript
known as the "Carter copy," handwritten by him and two helpers in
the decade before his death in 1853. Volume 1 provides images of
the original text, side by side with the new edited text. Volume 2
presents the edited Hawaiian text side by side with a new annotated
English translation. Malo's text has been edited at two levels.
First, the Hawaiian has been edited through a careful comparison of
all the extant manuscripts, attempting to restore Malo's original
text, with explanations of the editing choices given in the
footnotes. Second, the orthography of the Hawaiian text has been
modernized to help today's readers of Hawaiian by adding
diacritical marks ('okina and kahako, or glottal stop and macron,
respectively) and the punctuation has been revised to signal the
end of clauses and sentences. The new English translation attempts
to remain faithful to the edited Hawaiian text while avoiding
awkwardness in the English. Both volumes contain substantial
introductions. The introduction to Volume 1 (in Hawaiian) discusses
the manuscripts of Malo's text and their history. The introduction
to Volume 2 contains two essays that provide context to help the
reader understand Malo's Moolelo Hawaii. "Understanding Malo's
Moolelo Hawaii" describes the nature of Malo's work, showing that
it is the result of his dual Hawaiian and Western education. "The
Writing of the Moolelo Hawaii" discusses how the Carter copy was
written and preserved, its relationship to other versions of the
text, and Malo's plan for the work as a whole. The introduction is
followed by a new biography of Malo by Kanaka Maoli historian
Noelani Arista, "Davida Malo, a Hawaiian Life," describing his life
as a chiefly counselor and Hawaiian intellectual.
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