Inventing politics
Subtitle: a new political anthropology of the Hawaiian kingdom
By: Juri Mykkänen.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Ethnology -- Hawaii; Political anthropology -- Hawaii; Hawaii -- Kings and rulers; Hawaii -- Ethnic relations; Hawaii -- Politics and government
Description: "Inventing Politics is a theoretical statement of a new kind of political anthropology. Through an extensive use of primary sources, including many contemporary Hawaiian-language newspapers and dictionaries, it argues that what informs our current understanding of politics was already present in the early nineteenth-century encounters between Hawaiians and foreigners - a reading that translates seemingly apolitical events into the language of politics and speaks to the fundamental question of whether politics is a functional aspect of every society or an invention based on specific cultural meanings and interests."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-240) and index.