The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
Title | The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 1989-07-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521273169 |
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.
Niuatoputapu
Title | Niuatoputapu PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher | Computer Science Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
On the Road of the Winds
Title | On the Road of the Winds PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2002-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520234618 |
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.
How Chiefs Became Kings
Title | How Chiefs Became Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2019-05-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520303393 |
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.
Chiefdoms
Title | Chiefdoms PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy K. Earle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1993-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521448963 |
These eleven case studies of different chiefdoms examine how ruling elites retain and legitimize their power.
The Evolution of God
Title | The Evolution of God PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Wright |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Total Pages | 576 |
Release | 2009-06-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0316053279 |
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality has a role today, and why science, contrary to conventional wisdom, affirms the validity of the religious quest. And this previously unrecognized evolutionary logic points not toward continued religious extremism, but future harmony. Nearly a decade in the making, The Evolution of God is a breathtaking re-examination of the past, and a visionary look forward.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
Title | The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce G. Trigger |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 1084 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521630757 |
Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.