Jeffrey Sissons

Gebundenes Buch

The Polynesian Iconoclasm

Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power

Beschreibung

An ethnographic examination of the Polynesian iconoclasm The book seeks answers to why Polynesian inhabitants destroyed and desecrated all of the temples in the early nineteenth century The authors employ concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic to explore the dramatic period

Autor

Jeffrey Sissons is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of numerous publications on Maori and Polynesian history written over the past 25 years. His most recent book is First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and their Futures (Reaktion Books, 2005).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9781782384137
• ISBN-10: 1782384138
• Artikelnr.: 41733385