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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirch, Patrick Vinton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hawaiians > Politics and government.
Hawaiians > Kings and rulers.
First contact (Anthropology)
Chiefdoms.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
Autochtones > Premiers contacts avec les Occidentaux > Hawaii.
Chefferie (Anthropologie) > Hawaii > Histoire.
First contact (Anthropology) > Hawaii.
Chiefdoms > Hawaii > History.
Hawaii.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780520947849

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