Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia (Pocket)
avPatrick Vinton Kirch, Roger Curtis Green, Patrick Vinton Kirch
ISBN: 9780521788793 - UTGIVEN: 2001-04The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as [...]
On the Road of the Winds (Häftad)
avPatrick Vinton Kirch
ISBN: 9780520234611 - UTGIVEN: 200203The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, the home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue car[...]
How Chiefs Became Kings (Inbunden)
avPatrick Vinton Kirch
ISBN: 9780520267251 - UTGIVEN: 201012In "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.[...]
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief (Inbunden)
avPatrick Vinton Kirch
ISBN: 9780520273306 - UTGIVEN: 2012-07-17Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, this title follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific and presents the history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago.[...]
