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contextualizes Hawaiian mo‘o with similar water deities from around the world, although with relevant emphasis on Polynesia. As an oiwi (native Hawaiian) fluent in the Hawaiian language, Brown explains how reliance on English-language translations has limited the analytical scope of big names in Hawaiian ethnography like Martha Beckwith. Brown offers several first-time translations of mo‘olelo about mo‘o, which she has retrieved from digital archives of Hawaiian-language newspapers. The collections stored in Papakilo Database and Ulukau Electronic Library are her main source materials. Brown argues that the knowledge produced in traditional Hawaiian storytelling about mo‘o sustains a complex indigenous worldview and philosophical understanding of the universe, which historically has been trivialized and simplified in Euro-American scholarship. In particular, she makes meaningful connections between the Hawaiian concept of kino lau and mo‘o. Kino lau refers to the multiple manifestations of deities in plants, fish, animals, and inanimate objects. She explores several illuminating examples of mo‘o kino lau, such as eels, caterpillars, birds, plants, clouds, wind, and geographical features. A similarly important cultural concept in Brown’s analysis is kinship and genealogy. Mo‘o is embedded in words like ‘iwikuamo‘o (‘backbone’, meaning family) and mo‘olele (story). A particularly important contribution to the study of mo‘o is Brown’s method of comparing multiple versions of mo‘o legends. For example, in Chapter Four, ‘Kinship and Antagonism between the Mo‘o and Pele Clans’, Brown examines point of view in several versions of legends pertaining to the powerful volcano goddess Pele and her family’s encounters with mo‘o. Photographs, maps, artwork, diagrams, and genealogical charts help to visualize the stories examined in Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua. Throughout the book, Brown offers richly engaging analyses that draw on indigenous and Euro-American scholarship and invite the reader to think critically about ethnographic methods and the multiple layers of knowledge contained within oral traditions.