How chiefs became kings : divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i / 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 c...
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Table of Contents:
- From chiefdom to archaic state : Hawai'i in comparative and historical context
- Hawaiian archaic states on the eve of European contact
- Native Hawaiian political history
- Tracking the transformations : population, intensification, and monumentality
- The challenge of explanation.