How chiefs became kings
Subtitle: divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i
By: [by] Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 2, 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, USA; Los Angeles, USA; London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780520267251
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Chiefdoms -- Hawaii -- History; Hawaiians -- Kings and rulers; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Hawaii; Hawaiians -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: pagenum: ix
title: Preface; title: From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Hawai’i in Comparative and Historical Context
pagenum: 1
label: 1; pagenum: 4
title: What Are Archaic States?; pagenum: 6
title: Theories of Primary State Formation; pagenum: 8
title: Hawai’i as a Model System for State Emergence; pagenum: 11
title: Marshall Sahlins’s Challenge; pagenum: 13
title: A Phylogenetic Model for Polynesian Cultural Evolution; pagenum: 16
title: The Nature of Ancestral Polynesian Society; pagenum: 24
title: How Did Contact-Era Hawai’i Differ from Ancestral Polynesia?; pagenum: 27
title: Was Hawai’i Unique in Polynesia?; title: Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact
pagenum: 29
label: 2; pagenum: 30
title: Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawai’i; pagenum: 31
title: Hawaiian Polities: Size and Scale; pagenum: 33
title: Class Stratification and Divine Kingship; pagenum: 41
title: Elite Art, Craft Specialization, and Wealth Finance; pagenum: 47
title: Political, Administrative, and Settlement Hierarchies; pagenum: 51
title: Systems of Production; pagenum: 55
title: The Hierarchy of Priests and Temples; pagenum: 60
title: The State Cults and the Ritual Cycle; pagenum: 66
title: Land and Labor; pagenum: 69
title: War; pagenum: 72
title: Summary; title: Native Hawaiian Political History
pagenum: 77
label: 3; pagenum: 79
title: Genealogies of Renown, Traditions of Power; pagenum: 82
title: Founding Traditions of Settlement and Voyaging; pagenum: 88
title: Political Developments of the Fifteenth to Mid-sixteenth Centuries; pagenum: 92
title: Usurpation and Political Consolidation in the Hawai’i and Maui Kingdoms; pagenum: 103
title: Dynastic Histories of the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries; pagenum: 116
title: Political Developments of the Contact Era; pagenum: 121
title: Agency in History: Ali’i Routes to Power; title: Tracking the Transformations: Population, Intensification, and Monumentality
pagenum: 125
label: 4; pagenum: 126
title: The Hawaiian Cultural Sequence; pagenum: 128
title: Population and Demographic Trends; pagenum: 140
title: Contrastive Agroecosystems; pagenum: 143
title: Temporal Pathways of Intensification; pagenum: 154
title: Marine Resources and Aquaculture; pagenum: 156
title: Monumentality and the Temple System; pagenum: 166
title: Royal Centers and Elite Residence Patterns; pagenum: 174
title: When Did the Hawaiian Archaic States Emerge?; title: The Challenge of Explanation
pagenum: 177
label: 5; pagenum: 179
title: Previous Explanations for Hawaiian Cultural Change; pagenum: 190
title: Ultimate Causation: Population, Intensification, and Surplus; pagenum: 201
title: Proximate Causation: Status Rivalry, Alliance, and Conquest; pagenum: 210
title: Why Did Archaic States Emerge First on Hawai’i and Maui?; pagenum: 217
title: Hawai’i and Archaic State Emergence; pagenum: 223
title: Notes; pagenum: 239
title: Glossary of Hawaiian Terms; pagenum: 243
title: References; pagenum: 267
title: Index