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Inventing politics : a new political anthropology of the Hawaiian kingdom /

How did early nineteenth-century foreigners understand Hawaiian chiefly politics? What kinds of cultural resources did Hawaiians themselves have to make sense of their own structures of domination and those of the West? What was the outcome in political terms of the encounter between Hawaiians and f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mykkänen, Juri, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Natives and foreigners: the cultural order of Hawaii's early missionization
  • The politics of virtue
  • Culture in the making: the rise of political discourse
  • Political economy
  • Natural rights, virtuous wealth
  • The denouement: untranslated experiences.