Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 1 - Historical Ethnography

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 structure of the kingdom to the daily life of ordinary people. Volume II examines the material record of changes in local social organization, economy and production, population, and domestic settlement arrangements.

About the author

Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Patrick V. Kirch is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former chair of the division of archaeology at the University of Hawaii.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick V. Kirch, Patrick Vinton Kirch, Patrick Vinton (University of California Kirch, Kirch Patrick Vinton, Marshall Sahlins, Sahlins Marshall
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1994
• EAN: 9780226733654
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73365-4
• No. of pages: 251
• Dimensions: 22 mm x 28 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Hawaii, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Oceania, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history, Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii / Hawaiʻi (State of)