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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 H...
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Contents
Preface
1. From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Hawai‘i in Comparative and Historical Context
What Are Archaic States?
Theories of Primary State Formation
Hawai‘i a...
Despre autor
Patrick Vinton Kirch is Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, inclu...