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The Mo'olelo Hawai'i Of Davida Malo : Volume 2 : Hawaiian Text And Translation
Paperback Edition: 1
Volume 2 Hawaiian Text and Translation
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, edited by Jeffrey Lyon, provides images of the original manuscript pages, side by side with the new edited text.
Volume 2, edited and translated by Charles Langlas and Jeffrey Lyon, 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.
The isbn for volume 1 is 9780824855499
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Pages : 416
Publication date : 2020-05-15
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure