How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520303393
ISBN13:9780520303393
Release Date:April 2019
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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