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

Kirch, Patrick Vinton, 1950-

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010

Online Ressource (xii, 273 p.) : ill., maps.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-265) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Kirch, Patrick Vinton : How chiefs became kings. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-520-94784-9 (electronic bk.); 0-520-94784-3 (electronic bk.)

9786612917905 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 6612917903 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-26725-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-26725-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-26725-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 692797916 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

GN671.H3

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LOC-SH: Chiefdoms -- History -- Hawaii ; Hawaiians -- Kings and rulers ; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Hawaii ; Hawaiians -- Politics and government ; Electronic books -- History ; Chiefdoms -- Hawaii -- History ; Hawaiians -- Kings and rulers ; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Hawaii ; Hawaiians -- Politics and government

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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, 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