Roger C. Green, Patrick Vinton Kirch

Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia

An Essay in Historical Anthropology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral Polynesian culture, Hawaiki.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9780521788793
• ISBN-10: 052178879X
• Artikelnr.: 26725668

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: on historical anthropology
Part I. The Phylogenetic Model: Theory and Method: 1. The phylogenetic model in historical anthropology
2. Methodologies: implementing the phylogenetic model
3. Polynesia as a phylogenetic unit
Part II. Rediscovering 'Hawaiki': 4. The ancestral Polynesian world
5. Subsistence
6. Food preparation and cuisine
7. Material culture
8. Social and political organization
9. Gods, rituals, and seasons
Epilogue: on history, phylogeny, and evolution.