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How Chiefs Became Kings : Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i /

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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Main Author: Kirch, Patrick Vinton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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