Noio Publications: Bibliography

Dennis Kawaharada

(Last Update: December 22, 2006)

Books

Storied Landscapes: Hawaiian Literature and Place. Kalamaku Press. 1999.

Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawai‘i. Kalamaku Press. 2004.

Edited Books and Collections

The Wind Gourd of La'amaomao. Moses K. Nakuina. Kalamaku Press. Revised Edition 2005.

Hawaiian Fishing Traditions. Moke Manu and Others. Kalamaku Press. Revised Edition 2006.

Voyaging Chiefs of Havai'i. Teuira Henry and Others. Kalamaku Press. Online Version 2004.

Ancient O‘ahu: Stories from Thrum and Fornander. Kalamaku Press. Revised Edition 2001. (Online Version: Traditions of O'ahu: Stories of an Ancient Island at Kapi'olani Community College's Asia Pacific Digital Library.)

La‘ieikawai by S.N. Haleole. Kalamaku Press. 2006.

Essays, Translations, and Reviews

“Cane Fire.” Translation of a short short by Naoto Nakashima, with Masako Ikeda. Bamboo Ridge, Summer 2005.

Review of Greg Dening’s Beach Crossings, Voyaging across times, cultures and self. The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Associaton for Maritime History. Vol. 27, No. 1, 2005.

“Alive in Story.” Wao Akua, Sacred Source of Life (Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife. 2003. The essay is published in Local Geography.

“Local Mythologies, 1979-2000.” Hawai‘i Review 56 Spring 2001.

“A Search for Ku‘ula-kai.” In Literary Studies East and West: Navigating Islands and Continents: Conversation and Contestations in and around the Pacific / Selected Essays, edited by Cindy Franklin, Ruth Hsu, and Suzanne Kosanke. UH Press and EW Center Press, 2001. The essay is published in Storied Landscapes.

“Images of Local Culture.” In The Hawaii Herald. Vol. 4, No. 10. May 20, 1983.

Travel Pieces

Travel–Asia

Japan 2006: "Where Gods Alight: Sacred Sites in Western Japan"
Japan 2005: "Roads of Oku: Travels in Northern Japan in the Footsteps of Basho and Beyond" (Honolulu Advertiser, June 26, 2005)
Japan 2004: "On the Road in Kansai: Nara, Ise, Kumano, Kyoto, and Tango" (Honolulu Advertiser, June 6, 2004)
Philippines 2006: "Manilla and Beyond" (Traveling with the governor of Hawai'i's tour to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Filipino immigration to Hawai'i.)

Travel–Hawai'i and Polynesia

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 2000: "Sanctuary" (On the Rapture with scientists conducting an ecologoical survey of the islands. This travel essay is printed in Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawai‘i. Kalamaku Press. 2004.
Marquesas 1999: On the Voyaging Canoe Hokule'a to Six Islands in the Marquesas; posted at the PVS website (http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/rapanui/Tomangareva.html)
Marquesas 1993: Journey to the Isles of Hiva [the Marquesas Islands]. (A truncated version appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser. Sept. 19, 1993.) Full text with photos will appear here in 2007.
Tahiti 1992: “1992 Voyage: Sail to Ra‘iatea.” On the Voyaging Canoe Hokule'a from Tahiti to Ra'iatea; posted at the PVS website (http://www.pvs.hawaii.org/1992/raiatea.html)

Travel–Americas

Yucatan 2000: Mayan Ruins (Forthcoming in 2007)
Reports from Native Alaska 1995: On the Voyaging Canoe Hawai'iloa from Vancouver to Juneau; ; posted at the PVS website (http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/alaskahardy.html)
Chaco Canyon 1992: Ancient Desert Ruins (Forthcoming in 2007)

Website and Writings for the Polynesian Voyaging Society

Polynesian Voyaging Society Website. 1995-2004. Redsigned in 2006.

“Wayfinding, or Non-Instrument Navigation.” On the PVS website. (http://www.pvs.hawaii.org/navigate/navigate.html)

“Non-Instrument Weather Forecasting” On the PVS website. (http://www.pvs.hawaii.org/navigate/winds.html)

“No Na Mamo: Hokule‘a’s 1992 Voyage for Education” (KCCN Hawaiian Radio Cultural Vignette Series, broadcast, February to April 1993).

“1992 Voyage: Sail to Rarotonga.” On the PVS website. (http://www.pvs.hawaii.org/1992/rarotonga.html)

“1992: The Voyage Home.” On the PVS website. (http://www.pvs.hawaii.org/1992/voyhome.html)

“Isles of Hiva” (History and culture of the Marquesas Islands). On the PVS website. (http://www.pvs.hawaii.org/hiva.html)

Updates of Voyage from the Past [history of Hokule‘a]. Kamehameha Schools Press. 1992, 2002, and 2004.