Kumulipo - Milestone Documents

Kumulipo

( ca. 1700 )

Further Reading

Books

  • Barrère, Dorothy B. The Kumuhonua Legends: A Study of Late 19th Century Hawaiian Stories of Creation and Origins. Honolulu: Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1969.
  • Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940.
  • Beckwith, Martha Warren. The Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
  • Charlot, John. The Hawaiian Poetry of Religion and Politics: Some Religio-Political Concepts in Post-Contact Literature. Honolulu: Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1985.
  • Craig, Robert D. Handbook of Polynesian Mythology. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
  • Kame’eleihiwa, Lilikala. “Kumulipo.” Hawaii: University of Hawaii, 2008.
  • Lili’uokalani. The Kumulipo: An Hawaiian Creation Myth. Kentfield, Calif.: Pueo Press, 1978.
  • Pukui, Mary Kawena, E. W. Haertig, and Catherine A. Lee. Nana i ke Kumu: Look to the Source. 2 vols. Honolulu: Hui Hanai, 1972.
  • Valeri, Valerio. Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii, trans. Paula Wissing. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Journals

  • Davenport, William. “The ’Hawaiian Cultural Revolution’: Some Political and Economic Considerations.” American Anthropologist 71 (1969): 1–20.
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