Katharine Luomala Explained

Katharine Luomala
Birth Date:September 10, 1907
Birth Place:Cloquet, Minnesota, U.S.
Death Date:February 27, 1992
Death Place:Hawaii, U.S.
Occupation:Anthropologist

Ellen Katharine Luomala (September 10, 1907 – February 27, 1992) was an American anthropologist known for her studies of comparative mythology in Oceania.

Early life and education

Luomala was born in Cloquet, Minnesota, the daughter of John E. Luomala and Elina (Linn) Forsnas Luomala. Both of her parents were born in Finland. She was educated at the University of California, Berkeley. She began her anthropological studies there by working with the Navajo people in the 1930s, chronicling their changing lives. She earned her bachelor's degree in 1931, a master's degree in 1933, and completed her Ph.D. in 1936.[1]

Career

In 1941 Luomala became an honorary associate at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii, which position she maintained for the rest of her working life. She worked in Washington, D.C. during World War II. In 1946 she became a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,[2] where she studied Hawaiian mythology and, from 1950, the ethnobotany of the Gilbert Islands. In 1955 she received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for further studies in the Gilbert Islands.[3] She retired in 1973.

Luomala was a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and a member of the Anthropological Society of Hawaii, the Polynesian Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi.[4] [5] In 1983, she received the Hawaii Award for Literature, for her body of work.[6]

Luomala owned the at the time of the vessel's accident in 1955.[7]

Luomala's 1955 book, Voices on the Wind, was the book used as a reference by Imagineer Rolly Crump while he was designing Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room and its pre-show. Crump also referred to the book as Whispers on the Wind. It is what served as a huge part in the popularity of American "Tiki culture."[8]

Works

Luomala was a prolific academic writer, with at least eight monographs and more than a hundred articles, in scholarly journals including The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Human Organization,[9] Applied Anthropology,[10] Fabula, Pacific Science, The Journal of American Folklore, Ethnology, Asian Perspectives, Anthropos, and Pacific Studies. She also contributed to reference works, including the Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend (1950), edited by Maria Leach.[11]

Monographs

Articles

Personal life and legacy

Luomala died in 1992, at the age of 84.[35] An anthropology scholarship fund in her name was set up at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Notes and References

  1. News: Takeuchi . Floyd K. . 1992-03-04 . Katharine Luomala counted menehune among her friends . 2024-05-06 . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . 36 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: King . Pauline . 1958-06-05 . She Likes Fairy Tales and Folklore . 2024-05-06 . The Honolulu Advertiser . 15 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1955-04-27 . UH Anthropologist Receives Research Grant . 2024-05-06 . The Honolulu Advertiser . 5 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Book: Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. 2000-01-01. 9780415920407. en. Joy Dorothy. Harvey. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Joy Harvey.
  5. Web site: Deceased Honorary Fellows: Katherine Luomala . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151021223138/http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/asao/pacific/honoraryf/luomala.htm . 2015-10-21 . 2016-01-26 . Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
  6. News: Taylor . Lois . 1984-05-29 . Polynesian Puppets FInd a New Stage . 2024-05-06 . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . 21 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: Forbis . John . 1972-05-25 . Joyita Died a South Seas Enigma . 2024-05-06 . The Kansas City Times . 37 . Newspapers.com.
  8. Book: Shaffer, Joshua C. Discovering the Magic Kingdom: An Unofficial Disneyland Vacation Guide - Second Edition. September 17, 2023. July 17, 2017. Synergy Book Publishing. 978-0-9991664-0-6. 458.
  9. Luomala . Katharine . July 1946 . California Takes Back its Japanese Evacuees: The Readjustment of California to the Return of the Japanese Evacuees . Human Organization . en . 5 . 3 . 25–39 . 10.17730/humo.5.3.v24257r8441vq766 . 0018-7259.
  10. Luomala . Katharine . 1947 . Community Analysis by the War Relocation Authority Outside the Relocation Centers . Applied Anthropology . 6 . 1 . 25–31 . 0093-2914.
  11. News: Hudson . Loring G. . 1950-12-30 . Dr. Katharine Luomala Contributes to Dictionary of Folklore, Legend . 2024-05-06 . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . 29 . Newspapers.com.
  12. Book: Luomala, Katharine . Navaho Life of Yesterday and Today . 1938 . Western Museum Laboratories, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service . en.
  13. Book: Luomala, Katharine . Maui-of-a-thousand-tricks: His Oceanic and European Biographers . 1949 . Bernice P. Bishop Museum . 978-0-527-02306-5 . en.
  14. News: Williams . John . 1939-10-19 . Maui Hero Among Gods; His Biography Planned . 2024-05-06 . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . 1 . Newspapers.com.
  15. Web site: Online Books by Katharine Luomala . Online Books . Online Books . September 17, 2023.
  16. Toffelmier . Gertrude . Luomala . Katharine . April 1936 . Dreams and Dream Interpretation of the Diegueño Indians of Southern California . The Psychoanalytic Quarterly . en . 5 . 2 . 195–225 . 10.1080/21674086.1936.11925281 . 0033-2828.
  17. Luomala . Katharine . 1940 . Notes on the Development of Polynesian Hero-Cycles . The Journal of the Polynesian Society . 49 . 3(195) . 367–374 . 0032-4000.
  18. Luomala . Katharine . 1940 . Documentary Research in Polynesian Mythology . The Journal of the Polynesian Society . 49 . 2(194) . 175–195 . 0032-4000.
  19. Luomala . Katharine . 1959-01-01 . Polynesian Myths about Maui and the Dog . Fabula . 2 . 1 . 139–162 . 10.1515/fabl.1959.2.1.139 .
  20. Luomala, Katharine. "A history of the binomial classification of the Polynesian native dog" Pacific Science 14(July 1960): 193-223.
  21. Luomala . Katharine . 1961 . Survey of Research on Polynesian Prose and Poetry . The Journal of American Folklore . 74 . 294 . 421–439 . 10.2307/538265 . 0021-8715.
  22. Luomala . Katharine . 1961 . A Dynamic in Oceanic Maui Myths . Fabula . 4 . 1 . 137-162.
  23. Luomala . Katharine . 1962 . Martha Warren Beckwith. A Commemorative Essay . The Journal of American Folklore . 75 . 298 . 341–353 . 10.2307/538369 . 0021-8715.
  24. Luomala . Katharine . 1963 . Flexibility in Sib Affiliation among the Diegueno . Ethnology . 2 . 3 . 282–301 . 10.2307/3772862 . 0014-1828.
  25. Luomala . Katharine . 1964-01-01 . Motif A 728: Sun Caught in Snare and Certain Related Motifs . Fabula . 6 . 3 . 213–252 . 10.1515/fabl.1964.6.3.213 .
  26. Luomala . Katharine . 1965 . Humorous Narratives about Individual Resistance to Food-Distribution Customs in Tabiteuea, Gilbert Islands . The Journal of American Folklore . 78 . 307 . 28–45 . 10.2307/538101 . 0021-8715.
  27. Luomala . Katharine . 1966 . Numskull Clans and Tales: Their Structure and Function in Asymmetrical Joking Relationships . The Journal of American Folklore . 79 . 311 . 157–194 . 10.2307/537496 . 0021-8715.
  28. Luomala . Katharine . 1972-01-01 . Disintegration and Regeneration, the Hawaiian Phantom Hitchhiker Legend . Fabula . 13 . 20–59 . 10.1515/fabl.1972.13.1.20 .
  29. Luomala . Katharine . 1973 . Moving and Movable Images in Easter Island Custom and Myth . The Journal of the Polynesian Society . 82 . 1 . 28–46 . 0032-4000.
  30. Luomala . Katharine . 1974 . The Cyrtosperma Systemic Pattern: Aspects of Production in the Gilbert Islands . The Journal of the Polynesian Society . 83 . 1 . 14–34 . 0032-4000.
  31. Luomala . Katharine . 1977 . Post-European Central Polynesian Head Masks and Puppet-Marionette Heads . Asian Perspectives . 20 . 1 . 130–171 . 0066-8435.
  32. Luomala . Katharine . 1980 . Some Fishing Customs and Beliefs in Tabiteuea (Gilbert Islands, Micronesia) . Anthropos . 75 . 3/4 . 523–558 . 0257-9774.
  33. Luomala, Katharine. "Phantom Night Marchers in the Hawaiian Islands." Pacific Studies 7, no. 1 (1983): 1.
  34. Luomala, Katharine. "Reality and fantasy: The foster child in Hawaiian myths and customs." Pacific Studies 10 (1987): 45-45.
  35. News: Krauss . Bob . 1992-03-04 . Katharine Luomala, folklore expert . 2024-05-06 . The Honolulu Advertiser . 29 . Newspapers.com.

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