A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30341-6 (ISBN)
This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain James Cook’s encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems.
Patrick Vinton Kirch is Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and author of On the Road of the Winds and How Chiefs Became Kings (UC Press), among other books.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Islands out of Time
Part One: Voyages
One: A Trail of Tattooed Pots
Two: East from Hawaiki
Three: Follow the Golden Plover
Four: Voyages into the Past
Five: The Sands of Waimanalo
Part Two: In Pele’s Islands
Six: Flightless Ducks and Palm Forests
Seven: Voyaging Chiefs from Kahiki
Eight: Ma‘ilikukahi, O‘ahu’s Sacred King
Nine: The Waters of Kane
Ten: “Like Shoals of Fish”
Part Three: The Reign of the Feathered Gods
Eleven: ‘Umi the Unifier
Twelve: ‘Umi’s Dryland Gardens
Thirteen: The House of Pi‘ilani
Fourteen: “Like a Shark That Travels on the Land”
Fifteen: The Altar of Ku
Sixteen: The Return of Lono
Seventeen: Prophecy and Sacrifice
Epilogue: Hawai‘i in World History
Alphabetical List of Hawaiian Historical Persons
Glossary of Hawaiian Words
Sources and Further Reading
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.07.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 499 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-30341-5 / 0520303415 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-30341-6 / 9780520303416 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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