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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirch, Patrick Vinton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Chiefdoms > Hawaii > History.
Hawaiians > Kings and rulers.
First contact (Anthropology) > Hawaii.
Hawaiians > Politics and government.
Chefferie (Anthropologie) > Hawaii > Histoire.
Premiers contacts (Anthropologie) > Hawaii.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Chiefdoms
First contact (Anthropology)
Hawaiians > Kings and rulers
Hawaiians > Politics and government
Hawaii
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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