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The Polynesian iconoclasm : religious revolution and the seasonality of power /
Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconocla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2014.
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| Colección: | ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The seasonality of life
- The Mo'orean iconoclasm
- Pomare's iconoclasm as seasonal sacrifice
- More distant emulations
- Re-consecrating the world
- Re-binding societies
- New tabus and ancient pleasures
- History, habitus and seasonality.