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Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

We know it's the end of February, but we wanted to take a moment to celebrate Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.

Since 2013, Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or Hawaiian Language Month, is celebrated every Pepeluali (February). It was established through Act 23, signed by Governor Neil Abercrombie, to help bolster and boost Hawai'i's native language. 

Here at JABSOM Library, we are celebrating Hawaiian Language this month by sharing health-related Hawaiian words and Hawaiian Language resources.

Anatomia, 1838 (Hawaiian Text with English Translation) by Gerrit P. Judd; Esther T. Mookini (Translator)

Call Number: Reference - Library Use Only WZ 290 J92a 2003a

ISBN: 9780824825850

Publication Date: 2003-04-30

Anatomia is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. Gerrit P. Judd, for a time the only medical missionary in the Islands, wrote the text in 1838 to teach basic anatomy to Hawaiians enrolled at the Missionary Seminary (Lahainaluna School). Armed with the fundamentals of Western medicine, Judd's students were sent out to minister to a native population that had been at the mercy of lethal infectious diseases since James Cook's arrival in 1778." "Judd's use of Hawaiian terms and descriptions provides us with insights into native cultural and healing practices in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Anatomia is a valuable addition to the growing collection of translations on native health and will be greatly appreciated by linguists, historians, and students of Hawaiian language and culture.

Kahuna La'au Lapa'au by June Gutmanis; Theodore Kelsey (Translator); Susan G. Monden (Illustrator)

Call Number: Reference - Library Use Only WB 50 AH3 G984k 1976

ISBN: 9780896100787

Publication Date: 1976-01-01

Book about classes of Hawaiian medical Kahuna the la'au lapa'au who were herbal practitioners.

 

La'au Hawaii by Isabella A. Abbott

Call Number: Reference - Library Use Only GN 476.73 A131L 1992

ISBN: 9780930897628

Publication Date: 1992-04-01

A unified account of the traditional Hawaiian cultural uses of plants based on scholarly literature and instruction from kupuna. The book is structured to demonstrate the link between the Hawaiian flora and Hawaiian culture.

Olelo No'eau by Mary Kawena Pukui

Call Number: Main PN 6519.H4 P979o 1983

ISBN: 9780910240932

Publication Date: 1983-01-01

"This extraordinary collection of Hawaiian sayings--collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui--offers a unique opportunity to savor the wisdom, poetic beauty, and earthy humor of these finely crafted expressions. The sayings may be appreciated individually and collectively for their aesthetic, historic, and educational values. They reveal even deeper layers of meaning, giving an understanding not only of Hawaii and its people but all of humanity. Since the sayings carry the immediacy of the spoken word, considered to be the highest form of cultural expression in old Hawaii, they bring us closer to the everyday thoughts and lives of the Hawaiians who created them. Taken together, the sayings offer a basis for an understanding of the essence and origins of traditional Hawaiian values." -- Amazon.com viewed August 3, 2020.

 

Sources:

(1) https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=kauka#w2w2-39551

(2) Hawaiian Herbal Medicine - Kāhuna Lā'au Lapa'au

(3) ʻOlelo No'eau - Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings

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