Martha Warren Beckwith

Hawaiian Mythology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ku and Hina-man and woman-were the great ancestral gods of heaven and earth for the ancient Hawaiians. They were life's fruitfulness and all the generations of mankind, both those who are to come and those already born.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1982
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 821g
• ISBN-13: 9780824805142
• ISBN-10: 0824805143
• Artikelnr.: 21436477

Autorenporträt

Martha Warren Beckwith (1871-1959) was an American folklorist and ethnographer. Born in Wellesley Heights, Massachusetts, Beckwith attended Mount Holyoke College before graduating with a Master's degree in anthropology from Columbia University in 1906. In 1920, having earned her PhD, she became the chair of Vassar College's Folklore program. Specializing in Hawaiian, Jamaican, and Native American cultures, Beckwith published numerous collections of proverbs, folk stories, myths, and ethnographies from her extensive research, often conducted with renowned ethnomusicologist Helen H. Roberts.