The Evolution Of The Polynesian Chiefdoms
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Author |
: Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 1989-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521273161 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521273169 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
A first study from an archaeological perspective of the elaborate systems of Polynesian chiefdoms presents an original account of the processes of cultural change and evolution over three millennia.
Author |
: Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher |
: University of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2019-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520303393 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520303393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Chiefs Became Kings by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
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.
Author |
: Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher |
: Computer Science Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112006947078 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Niuatoputapu by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Author |
: Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2002-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520234611 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520234618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Road of the Winds by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.
Author |
: Timothy K. Earle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1993-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521448964 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521448963 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chiefdoms by : Timothy K. Earle
These eleven case studies of different chiefdoms examine how ruling elites retain and legitimize their power.
Author |
: Michael Patrick Joseph Reilly |
Publisher |
: Polynesian Society, Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822037434321 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancestral Voices from Mangaia by : Michael Patrick Joseph Reilly
An effective understanding of the history of Mangaia, the most southerly of the Cook Islands, requires a firm foundation in the language of the people. Based upon this insight, Ancestral Voices transcribes and interprets a series of indigenous historical texts, including proverbs, songs and narratives, as told by generations of Mangaian scholars, notably the tribal historian, Mamae, and by outsider scholars, particularly, the missionary William Wyatt Gill and the anthropologist Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck).
Author |
: Craig Benjamin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 844 |
Release |
: 2015-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316298305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316298302 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge World History: Volume 4, A World with States, Empires and Networks 1200 BCE–900 CE by : Craig Benjamin
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of the Cambridge World History series outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations in science and technology, economic systems, attitudes towards gender and family, social hierarchies, education, art, and slavery. The second part of the volume focuses on broader processes of change within western and central Eurasia, the Mediterranean, South Asia, Africa, East Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania, as well as offering regional studies highlighting specific topics, from trade along the Silk Roads and across the Sahara, to Chaco culture in the US southwest, to Confucianism and the state in East Asia.
Author |
: Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2015-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824853488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824853482 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unearthing the Polynesian Past by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocean, from Mussau to Hawai'i to Easter Island. In this lively memoir, rich with personal—and often amusing—anecdotes, Kirch relates his many adventures while doing fieldwork on remote islands. At the age of thirteen, Kirch was accepted as a summer intern by the eccentric Bishop Museum zoologist Yoshio Kondo and was soon participating in archaeological digs on the islands of Hawai'i and Maui. He continued to apprentice with Kondo during his high school years at Punahou, and after obtaining his anthropology degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Kirch joined a Bishop Museum expedition to Anuta Island, where a traditional Polynesian culture still flourished. His appetite whetted by these adventures, Kirch went on to obtain his doctorate at Yale University with a study of the traditional irrigation-based chiefdoms of Futuna Island. Further expeditions have taken him to isolated Tikopia, where his excavations exposed stratified sites extending back three thousand years; to Niuatoputapu, a former outpost of the Tongan maritime empire; to Mangaia, with its fortified refuge caves; and to Mo'orea, where chiefs vied to construct impressive temples to the war god 'Oro. In Hawai'i, Kirch traced the islands' history in the Anahulu valley and across the ancient district of Kahikinui, Maui. His joint research with ecologists, soil scientists, and paleontologists elucidated how Polynesians adapted to their island ecosystems. Looking back over the past half-century of Polynesian archaeology, Kirch reflects on how the questions we ask about the past have changed over the decades, how archaeological methods have advanced, and how our knowledge of the Polynesian past has greatly expanded.
Author |
: Ben Fitzhugh |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461501374 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461501377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers by : Ben Fitzhugh
This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. It examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim and will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of archaeology and anthropology.
Author |
: Robert J. Hommon |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2013-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199916122 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199916128 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ancient Hawaiian State by : Robert J. Hommon
Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, this book redefines the study of primary states by arguing for the inclusion of Polynesia, which witnessed the development of primary states in both Hawaii and Tonga.