How Does the Kumulipo Mean?
| dc.contributor.author | Dye, Tom | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-08T20:00:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-08T20:00:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995-06-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | When Queen Lili'uokalani's translation of the Kumulipo was published in 1889 it was called a "genealogical prayer chant" that described the creation of the world. Later, Pokini Robinson read it as "the conception, gestation, nurture, and achievement of a chief" (Perkins 1991a:14), a view that swayed Martha Beckwith, the Vassar College folklorist, who was the first to analyze the Kumulipo as a creation chant. Rubellite Johnson, the University of Hawaii professor, saw in it a Hawaiian understanding of biological evolution (Johnson 1985). Theodore Kelsey considered it "an intrinsic work of art among the greatest yet produced" (Perkins 1991a:24), and Leialoha Apo Perkins, editor of the recently established Journal of Hawaiian and Pacific Folklore and Folklifi Studies, agrees with him that "the Kumulipo is a world classic" (Perkins 1990: 18). She has dedicated the first three volumes of the journal to Kelsey and his lifelong investigators into the meaning of the poem. | |
| dc.format.extent | 3 pages | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0890-1678 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10524/74519 | |
| dc.subject | poem | |
| dc.subject | Prayer | |
| dc.subject | Chant | |
| dc.subject | Kumulipo | |
| dc.subject | Lili'uokalani | |
| dc.subject | Theodore Kelsey | |
| dc.subject | Phonics | |
| dc.subject | hieroglphics | |
| dc.subject | language | |
| dc.subject | Hawaiian language | |
| dc.title | How Does the Kumulipo Mean? | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dspace.entity.type | ||
| prism.endingpage | 55 | |
| prism.number | 1 | |
| prism.publicationname | Hawaiian Archaeology | |
| prism.startingpage | 53 | |
| prism.volume | 5 |
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