The Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo Volume 1: Ka 'Ōlelo Kumu [Hawaiian]

by Davida Malo

Davida Malo's Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795, twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawaiʻi, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Hawaiian
• ISBN: 0824855493
• ISBN13: 9780824855499
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 8.5" x 11.1"