How chiefs became kings: divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i
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1. Verfasser: Kirch, Patrick Vinton (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-265) and index
From chiefdom to archaic state : Hawai'i in comparative and historical context -- Hawaiian archaic states on the eve of European contact -- Native Hawaiian political history -- Tracking the transformations : population, intensification, and monumentality -- The challenge of explanation
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, traditional history, and theory, and drawing on significant contributions from his own four decades of research, Kirch argues that Hawaiian polities had become states before the time of Captain Cook's voyage (1778-1779). The status of most archaic s
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ISBN:0520947843
9780520947849

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