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Rites Of Passage
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Poster: Karen Subject: Rites of Passage |
Posted on 12/4/01 at 6:20pm |
| I am researching hawaiian culture and rites of passage...anyone have any good website suggestions? |
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Poster: Marjorie Scott Subject: Rites of Passage |
Posted on 12/7/01 at 9:13am |
| aloha Karen, A good place to search might be Univ. of HI Hawaiian Studies Program, who can refer you further. Or you might try Hawaiian Social Services. I still believe the books "Nana E Ke Kumu" (Look to the Source), referred to above in another response, will provide your best and most complete source about Hawaiian culture. Rites of passage should become clear to you in Volume 2 which has several enlightening chapters covering childhood through maturity. These are quality paperbacks, possibly available on the net, but certainly from Bishop Museum bookstore, or directly from Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center in Honolulu. Both books are social services' "bibles" in approaches to problems of Hawaiians who come for consultation. |
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Poster: srt Email: davis_mephesto@hotmail.com Subject: Rites of passage |
Posted on 6/2/05 at 6:14pm |
| Hi i am also doing this |
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Poster: punohu Email: punohu@yahoo.net Subject: hawaiian rites of passages |
Posted on 6/12/05 at 1:14pm |
| here is a good book for you: tales of the night rainbow by jae pae lee. also, rites of passage were in the families, in the geneaologies or subject to class. they were not the same for all people. within the tahitian system they were different for the people of kauai who were mu. so your question is hard to answer. each family system, and class level was different. there were many rites of passage. for birth, for after birth, for the first year. for the seventh year, for the first mai, or also for becoming a man, or for becoming a certain rank in an order, or in a skill, for age, for after death, ect ect ect...there were millions of rites. so many. where to start?...each island was different, each dsistrict, each ahupuaa. all different, yet all....................hawaiian. S |
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Poster: Jesse Tinsley Email: jessehj@adelphia.net Subject: Rites of passage |
Posted on 6/13/05 at 6:20am |
| I am reading "Nana I Ke Kumu" and it has some information about rites of passage, including the giving of a child, even a baby, to a kahuna for a training and the turning of male child out of the kitchen to take his place among men. It also speaks of the naming of a child and later the revealing of a child's secret name. Unfortunately the book is somewhat hard to read because it is a collection of case studies of social workers who were helping native Hawaiians with various emotional and spiritual issues. In the book there is also mention of the passing of skills or spiritual power upon the death of an elder to a younger person selected by the elder. In some cases a young person was called to the bedside of a dying kupuna and asked to breathe in the breath of the elder so as to pass on the elder's skill or "mana. Perhaps the "uniki", the initiation of a hula teacher, could also be called a rite of passage, as could a young dancer's first public hula. Although modern Hawaiians are seen as "hangin' loose" and not rigid in their daily lives, older Hawaiians and the ancient ones valued dozens of ceremonies and rites to mark important moments and maintain morality. I would also suggest the book "Tales of the Night Rainbow", a memoir of a woman who lived from the time of Kamehameha to the 1930s. It is very readable and detailed. Some of it is online at http://www.mauiwebdesigns.com/Hawaii/HawaiiHistory/talesrainbow.htm Jesse Tinsley |
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