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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kirch, Patrick Vinton
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • From chiefdom to archaic state : Hawai'i in comparative and historical context
  • Hawaiian archaic states on the eve of European contact
  • Native Hawaiian political history
  • Tracking the transformations : population, intensification, and monumentality
  • The challenge of explanation.

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