handy e s c (6 Ergebnisse)

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: VG+. 2nd Printing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Summary:Ancient Hawaiian Civilization takes us back to Hawaii's "stone age," when there wasn't an alphabet, numbering system, or other civilized distinctions as we know them. Still rules of living, modes, and customs permitted large numbers of people to live healthfully and happily throughout the islands. This fascinating history of Hawaii is "must" reading for anyone who has been, wants to go, or lives in America's 50th State. This book authoritatively introduces the general reader to what was once a golden era of Hawaiian history and culture, the time when the islands were strictly Hawaiian Hawaii. Though the islands are almost completely westernized today, many facets from this golden age remain to make America's 50th State a "living laboratory" for the cultural and social study of racial migration and assimilation. This volume represents the knowledge and experience of no less than 16 scholars. The combined areas of specialization by no less than 16 authors have been carefully selected and grouped to make up this volume. Together, the authors comprise a truly formidable forum of Hawaiian thought and learning. Ethnologists, geologists, zoologists, and medical doctors are but a few of the areas of specialization represented in these pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. pp 43-57 'Tutelary spirits in animate and inaminate forms wrps.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 preliminary leaves, [3]-26 pages illustrations, VII plates on 4 leaves. Series: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Bulletin ; 15. Rebound in heavy card boards, with original paper wrappers laid down. Binding age-toned but sturdy; bookplate removed from front pastedown, else contents clean and attractive, plates fine. 240 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 324 pp, a few black and white text illustrations. Original black cloth, the bottom marginal has some light wrinkling and feint damp marking but generally a very good copy of the original edition. A series of articles by a number of writers including Handy, Kenneth Emory and E H Bryan.

Honolulu, HI, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1940. Large 8vo (25.6 x 17.3 cm). 227 pp.; 20 text figures, eight plates. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen work on horticulture in Hawaii, from an ethnological point of view, written by the anthropologist Edward Smith Craighill Handy (1892-1980). The publication ".was motivated by a desire to come down to fundamentals in the study of Polynesian culture" (from the preface). He promised a second volume, ".devoted to the description and interpretation of the planter's economic, social, and political principles and life, and the traditional, ritualistic, mystical, and mythological ideology which his mind patterned after that life", but that was never published. Published as the Museum's Bulletin 161. Small stamp and label on front wrapper; internally clean, as new. A very good copy.