Kaeppler adrienne l editor (6 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black spine with blue lettering. Some minor shelfwear to dust jacket front, Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout. Record # 471147. …

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condizione: New. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (7.25 x 1 x 10 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes black and white photos, tables, diagrams, notes, bibliography, discography and an index. 289 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Hula pahu are sacred chants and ritual movements performed with pahu, the sharkskin-covered drum. In this authoritative two-volume study, Adrienne Kaeppler and Elizabeth Tatar attempt to trace the origins and document the history of this vital Hawaiian tradition. By focusing on materials generated by early performers, Tatar and Kaeppler have captured the essence of hula pahu, before recent innovations in choreography and sound began to blur this rich tradition. In his introduction, renowned chanter Ka'upena Wong speaks of hula pahu as a "still-living tradition which may yet regain some of its early importance, as more and more Hawaiians search for their cultural roots." Volume I: Ha'a and Hula Pahu Sacred Movements By Adrienne Kaeppler Introduction by Ka'upena Wong Adrienne Kappler analyzes dance movements and explains their evolution from early ha'a (ritual) traditions. She accounts for the sacred nature of hula pahu by placing its origin in ritual worship of the "state gods" of the Hawaiian religion. Kaeppler believes that the chants and movements that once honored the gods, or akua, were transferred, after the arrival of Christian missionaries, to rituals honoring the surviving ancestral gods. The author identifies three major traditions of hula pahu, discusses their chief practitioners, and describes how these traditions were transmitted from generation to generation. Her dance descriptions are supported by Labano-tation scores (movement notation) that allow deeper analysis than usually encountered in cultural studies of dance.…

1st limited slipcased edition of 300 copies with an illustrated flyleaf, hand numbered and signed by Adrienne Kaeppler (No. 252/300). Greetings from HRH Princess Salote Pilolevu Tuita. Foreword by Mark Blackburn. Preface by Adrienne L. Kaeppler. (Flyleaf), XXXVI, 412 PP with 804 b/w or colour illustrations. Eps: Watercolour "L'habitation du Roi des Sandwich", by Adrien Aiomé Taunay. Cloth covers, colour illustration "Patuone, Chief of the Ngapuhi Tribe" pasted down on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Contained in an illustrated slipcase. Fine/as new condition. 32 x 14.5.…

Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication No. 66. X, 186 PP with 9 colour (8 on full page) and 251 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): plate with Hawaiian objects. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine condition. Scarce. 28 x 21.5. The James Cook collection in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Leningrad. The Webber collection, Berne. Notes on an Ethnographic collection made during the Third Voyage of Cook and preserved until the end of the last century in the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence. …