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How Chiefs Became Kings - Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i by Patrick Vinton Kirch
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
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. Integ ...Show more
The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms by Patrick Vinton Kirch
$44.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: New Studies in Archaeology Ser.
This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data h ...Show more
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