How chiefs became kings : divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i / Patric...
How chiefs became kings : divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i / Patric...
How chiefs became kings : divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i / Patrick Vinton Kirch.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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N320.4969/1
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English
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xii, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
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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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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California
Date Published
c2010.
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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 chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeolog...
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How chiefs became kings : divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i / Patrick Vinton Kirch.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-265) and index.
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c2010.
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N320.4969/1
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74VvX5yXeqGO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvX5yXeqGO
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0520267257 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520267251 (cloth : alk. paper)
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320.4969
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991011181679702626
