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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mykkänen, Juri, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Hawaii.
Political anthropology > Hawaii.
Ethnologie > Hawaii.
Anthropologie politique > Hawaii.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Ethnic relations
Ethnology
Kings and rulers
Political anthropology
Politics and government
Cultuurcontact.
Politieke ideeën.
Hawaii > Kings and rulers.
Hawaii > Ethnic relations.
Hawaii > Politics and government.
Hawaii > Relations interethniques.
Hawaii > Politique et gouvernement.
Hawaii
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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