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How chiefs became kings [[electronic resource] ] : divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i / / Patrick Vinton Kirch



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Autore: Kirch Patrick Vinton Visualizza persona
Titolo: How chiefs became kings [[electronic resource] ] : divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i / / Patrick Vinton Kirch Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
Disciplina: 320.4969
Soggetto topico: Chiefdoms - Hawaii - History
Hawaiians - Kings and rulers
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners - Hawaii
Hawaiians - Politics and government
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Hawai'i in Comparative and Historical Context -- Chapter 2. Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact -- Chapter 3. Native Hawaiian Political History -- Chapter 4. Tracking the Transformations: Population, Intensifi cation, and Monumentality -- Chapter 5. The Challenge of Explanation -- Notes -- Glossary of Hawaiian Terms -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 states is inferred from the archaeological record. But Kirch shows that because Hawai`i's kingdoms were established relatively recently, they could be observed and recorded by Cook and other European voyagers. Substantive and provocative, this book makes a major contribution to the literature of precontact Hawai`i and illuminates Hawai`i's importance in the global theory and literature about divine kingship, archaic states, and sociopolitical evolution.
Titolo autorizzato: How chiefs became kings  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-91790-0
9786612917905
0-520-94784-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459443803321
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