No nā mamo : traditional and contemporary Hawaiian beliefs and practices

__No Nā Mamo__ is an updated and enlarged compilation of books in the acclaimed Ka Wana series, published in 2005–2010. The books, revised and presented here as individual chapters, offer invaluable insights into the philosophy and way of life of Native Hawaiian culture: Pono (right way of living) Aloha (love and affection) Welina (welcome and hospitality) A‘o (education) Ola (health and healing) Ho‘oponopono (healing to make things right) Ho‘omana (the sacred and spiritual) Alaka‘i (leadership) Kākā‘ōlelo (oratory) Ho‘onohonoho (cultural management) Kapu (gender roles) Hewa (wrong way of living) Readers both familiar and unfamiliar with Native Hawaiian traditions and practices will find much to reflect on as well as practical guidance and knowledge. Throughout Chun draws on first-hand accounts from early Hawaiian historians, early explorers and missionaries, and nineteenth-century Hawaiian language publications—as well as his own experience, gained from a lifetime of engagement with the language and culture. __No Nā Mamo__ contains new and updated information throughout, a completely new chapter on Aloha, color illustrations, prefaces by the author and editor, a new Afterword, and an Appendix describing the challenges faced in creating this book.

This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts.

The introduction analyzes central concepts and themes: questions of survival, safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices, and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction. Contributors - four anthropologists, a historian, and a community health worker - offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women's past powers in reproduction.

No Nā Mamo is an updated and enlarged compilation of books in the acclaimed Ka Wana series, published in 2005{u2013}2010. The books, revised and presented here as individual chapters, offer invaluable insights into the philosophy and way of life of Native Hawaiian culture:Pono (right way of living)Aloha (love and affection)Welina (welcome and hospitality)A{u2018}o (education)Ola (health and healing)Ho{u2018}oponopono (healing to make things right)Ho{u2018}omana (the sacred and spiritual)Alaka{u2018}i (leadership)Kākā{u2018}ōlelo (oratory)Ho{u2018}onohonoho (cultural management)Kapu (gender roles)Hewa (wrong way of living)Readers both familiar and unfamiliar with Native Hawaiian traditions and practices will find much to reflect on as well as practical guidance and knowledge. Throughout Chun draws on first-hand accounts from early Hawaiian historians, early explorers and missionaries, and nineteenth-century Hawaiian language publications{u2014}as well as his own experience, gained from a lifetime of engagement with the language and culture. No Nā Mamo contains new and updated information throughout, a completely new chapter on Aloha, color illustrations, prefaces by the author and editor, a new Afterword, and an Appendix describing the challenges faced in creating this book Contents Illustrations Foreword Editor’s Preface Preface 1. Pono: The Way of Living 2. Aloha: Traditions of Love and Affection 3. Welina: Traditional and Contemporary Ways of Welcome and Hospitality 4 A‘o: Educational Traditions 5. Ola: Traditional Concepts of Health and Healing 6. Ho‘oponopono: Traditional Ways of Healing to Make Things Right Again 7. Ho‘omana: Understanding the Sacred and Spiritual 8. Alaka‘i: Traditional Leadership 9. Kākā‘ōlelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making 10. Ho‘onohonoho: Traditional Ways of Cultural Management 11. Kapu: Gender Roles in Traditional Society 12. Hewa: The Wrong Way of Living 13. Afterword Appendix Bibliography Index