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Book Futuna Aniwa Dictionary

Download or read book Futuna Aniwa Dictionary written by Arthur Capell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Douglas Fairbanks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Hancock
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2019-02-01
  • ISBN : 1493039938
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks written by Ralph Hancock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway stage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old. His happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style brought a new energy to the medium. But it was through his extraordinary success as a producer that Fairbanks achieved the goal of all creative people: to run his own show. This he did by co-founding United Artists in 1919 with his soon-to-be wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. As a producer, he showed visionary taste, collaborating with his directors and designers to enact gallant tales in spectacular settings. Whether he played a young man on the go or a swashbuckling hero in a fairy-tale land, Fairbanks—one of the thirty-six founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—put America’s hopes and dreams on film. This updated version of the original 1953 biography has been expanded by the Fairbanks family with archival materials as well as never-before-seen photographs from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.

Book A Grammar of Rapa Nui

Download or read book A Grammar of Rapa Nui written by Paulus Kieviet and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.

Book Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative

Download or read book Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative written by Jake Jakaitis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is still debated in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts. This collection of new essays considers various literary approaches to graphic narrative and sequential art. The authors examine the politics of comic form and narrative, the ways in which graphic narrative and sequential art "cross over" into other forms and genres, and how these articulations challenge the ways we read and interpret texts. By bringing literary theory to bear on graphic narrative and balancing readings of individual texts with larger ideas about comics scholarship as a whole, this work expands our understanding of the form itself and its engagement with political culture.

Book Hawaiian Dictionary

Download or read book Hawaiian Dictionary written by Mary Kawena Pukui and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. Now this indispensable reference volume has been enlarged and completely revised. More than 3,000 new entries have been added to the Hawaiian-English section, bringing the total number of entries to almost 30,000 and making it the largest and most complete of any Polynesian dictionary. Other additions and changes in this section include: a method of showing stress groups to facilitate pronunciation of Hawaiian words with more than three syllables; indications of parts of speech; current scientific names of plants; use of metric measurements; additional reconstructions; classical origins of loan words; and many added cross-references to enhance understanding of the numerous nuances of Hawaiian words. The English Hawaiian section, a complement and supplement to the Hawaiian English section, contains more than 12,500 entries and can serve as an index to hidden riches in the Hawaiian language. This new edition is more than a dictionary. Containing folklore, poetry, and ethnology, it will benefit Hawaiian studies for years to come.

Book Legendary Hawai i and the Politics of Place

Download or read book Legendary Hawai i and the Politics of Place written by Cristina Bacchilega and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into when we read these stories as texts in English-language translations? Cristina Bacchilega poses this question in her examination of the way these stories have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or other audiences. With an understanding of tradition that foregrounds history and change, Bacchilega examines how, following the 1898 annexation of Hawai'i by the United States, the publication of Hawaiian legends in English delegitimized indigenous narratives and traditions and at the same time constructed them as representative of Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian mo'olelo were translated in popular and scholarly English-language publications to market a new cultural product: a space constructed primarily for Euro-Americans as something simultaneously exotic and primitive and beautiful and welcoming. To analyze this representation of Hawaiian traditions, place, and genre, Bacchilega focuses on translation across languages, cultures, and media; on photography, as the technology that contributed to the visual formation of a westernized image of Hawai'i; and on tourism as determining postannexation economic and ideological machinery. In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.

Book Parable Visions   the Art of Cameron Gray

Download or read book Parable Visions the Art of Cameron Gray written by Cameron Gray and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Art, Photography and Written Works by Australian artist Cameron Gray.

Book Mamaka Kaiao

Download or read book Mamaka Kaiao written by Kōmike Hua‘olelo and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mämaka Kaiao adds to the 1998 edition more than 1,000 new and contemporary words that are essential to the continuation and growth of ka ölelo Hawaii--the Hawaiian language.

Book A Chinese Kitchen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynette Lo Tom
  • Publisher : Mutual Publishing
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781939487520
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Chinese Kitchen written by Lynette Lo Tom and published by Mutual Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chinese Kitchen is the fourth in a series from Mutual Publishing and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser exploring Hawaii's many ethnic cuisines. The aim of this series is to showcase writers who grew up in Hawaii and learned the dishes of their heritage, local-style. Theirs are no-nonsense, homestyle recipes meant to be referred to again and again when you are cooking for your own family. Our latest author, Lynette Lo Tom, is perfect for this series, sharing her lifelong devotion to Chinese cooking in stories, recipes, and historic accounts. Her book will make you yearn for a platter of kau yuk.

Book The Hawaiian Monk Seal

Download or read book The Hawaiian Monk Seal written by Patrick Ching and published by Kolowalu Book. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular, pretty pictures, of no possible interest to the serious student. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Hawaiian Stories and Wise Sayings

Download or read book Hawaiian Stories and Wise Sayings written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century written by Stephenson Percy Smith and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wars of the border-land, Nga-Puhi and other -- Battle of Moremo-nui, Nga-Puhi v. Ngati-Whatua -- Further wars on the border-land -- The Great Epidemic -- Early northern expedition to the south -- Muru-paenga's first expedition to Taranaki -- Tau-kawau's first expedition to Taranaki -- Marsden's first visit to Bay of Islands -- Te Morenga and Hongi visit the East Cape -- Tu-whare and Te Rauparaha's expedition to Port Nicholson -- Death of Tu-whare -- The Wai-te-mata and Thames -- War at Te Roto-a-Tara -- Death of Nahu, fights at Te Aratipi, &c. -- Marsden's visit to Hauraki and Kaipara -- Cruise's visit to Waitemata and Hauraki -- Te Moregna's visiti to the Thames -- Te Moregna's visit to Tauranga -- Marsden visits Katikati -- Koriwhai's death -- Titore and Te Wera's expedition to East Cape, and fall of Te Whetu-mata-rau -- Waipaoa -- Te Morenga's visit to Tamaki, death of Korperu -- Fall of Mauinaina to Hongi -- Fall of Te Totara pa to Hongi -- Pomare's raid to Tuhua-- |a Death of Te Pae-o-te-rangi at Rotorua -- "Te Amio-whenua" expedition -- Battle of Te Motou-nui, Taranaki -- Fall of Matakitaki to Hongi -- Pomare's first visit to the Urewera Country -- Te Roto-a-Tara (Kaupapa) -- Fall of Mokoia, Rotorua, to Hongi -- Pomare and Te Wera-Hamaki's expedition to the south -- Pomare's pease with Ngati-Porou -- Te Wera settles at Te Mahia Peninsula -- Te Wera's doings at Heretaunga -- Te Pakake -- Peace between Nga-Puhi and Waikato -- The "Coquille" at the Bay of Islands -- Troubles at Whangarei -- Death of Te Toroa and Rangi-wai-tatao, at Wairoa -- Te Mau-tara-nui visits the Bay of Islands -- The fall of Titirangi, Puke-karoro, &c., pas, Hawke's Bay -- Moumou-kai, Wai-kotero, Puke-Karoro -- Battle of Te Ika-a-ranga-nui, Kaipara -- Death of Te Mau-tara-nui -- Fall of Pohatu-roa, Hawke's Bay -- Fall of Waihau -- Fall of Noho-awatea, Waikato -- Pomare's death -- Death of Muru-paenga -- The Wai-te-mata in 1827 (D'Urville's account-- |a Rangi-tuke's expedition -- Tawa-tawhiti fight -- Rangi-tukia's expedition -- Hongi Hika, his death -- Taking of the "Hawes" -- The death of Ngarara -- The girls' war -- Ahuahu and Motiti (Te Haramiti's expedition) -- Pukerangi's expedition to Waikato -- Titore's first expedition to Tauranga -- Matamatat -- Titore's second expedition to Tauranga -- Puckey's visit to Te Reinga -- Toka-a-kuku -- Expedition to the Great Barrier -- The coming of the white man.

Book N  n   i Ke Kumu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Kawena Pukui
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780961673826
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book N n i Ke Kumu written by Mary Kawena Pukui and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one gives an indepth discussion of major Hawaiian culture concepts, providing insights into both their ancient and modern significances and volume two traces the ancient Hawaiian social customs practices and beliefs from birth to old age.

Book Ka Honua Ola   Eli Eli Kau Mai

Download or read book Ka Honua Ola Eli Eli Kau Mai written by Pualani Kanakaole Kanahele and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of twenty-five mele, or songs and chants from the Pele and Hiʻiaka saga"--Page xii.

Book The Polynesian Tattoo Today

Download or read book The Polynesian Tattoo Today written by Tricia Allen and published by Mutual Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of amazing photos attests to the high level of artistic achievement and technical ability of the Polynesian people today, as well as nonislanders who have been heavily influenced by the art of the Pacific."---Ed Hardy --Book Jacket.

Book The Water of K  ne

Download or read book The Water of K ne written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of legends of the various Hawaiian Islands.

Book Sites of Maui

Download or read book Sites of Maui written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: