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Anahulu Historical Ethnography

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ISBN-10: 0226733637

ISBN-13: 9780226733630

Edition: 1992

Authors: Patrick Vinton Kirch, Marshall D. Sahlins

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From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a leading archaeologist of Oceania, Anahulu seeks out the traces of this transformation in a typical local center of the kingdom founded by Kamehameha: the Anahulu river valley of northwestern Oahu. Volume I shows the surprising effects of the encounter with the imperial forces of commerce and Christianity--the distinctive ways the Hawaiian people culturally organized the experience, from the…    
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Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 251
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long
Weight: 2.310
Language: English

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Historiography Part I: Conquests, to 1812 1. Landscapes of Tradition 2. The Conquest Period, 1778-1812 Part II: The Sandalwood Era, 1812-1830 3. The Political Economy of Grandeur 4. Sandalwooding in the Countryside: Waialua Part III: The Whaling Period, 1830-1860 5. Leviathan: Whaling and the State 6. Land and People in the Whaling Time 7. Aloha Gidiona: Waialua in the Whaling Time Part IV: Kawailoa Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 8. Landscapes of History 9. Maka'ainana Appendix A: Land Claims Appendix B: Estates Bibliography Index