How chiefs became kings :: divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i /

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 c...

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1. Verfasser: Kirch, Patrick Vinton
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-265) and index.
ISBN:9780520947849
0520947843
9786612917905
6612917903

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