Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 2: The Archaeology of History [Hardcover]

Patrick Vinton Kirch (Author), Marshall Sahlins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1992 | Series: Anahulu

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 2, by Patrick V. Kirch, examines the material record of changes in local social organization, economy and production, population, and domestic settlement arrangements.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Presented here are the long-awaited results of a collaboration between two of the most accomplished scholars--one an ethnologist, the other an archaeologist--specializing in Pacific cultural history. Using the valley of the Anahulu River on Oahu's northwest coast as a case study, they chronicle the changes that swept through 19th-century Hawaii. The authors trace "an historic course set by a determinate cultural scheme," attempting to show how "capitalism realized itself through the mediation of a set of Hawaiian structures." In doing so, they have charted the intersection of world history and the specifics of Hawaiian life. This bold undertaking, requiring massive amounts of research, has been carried off with enormous success.
- Glenn Petersen, Baruch Coll. and Graduate Ctr., CUNY
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (November 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226733645
• ISBN-13: 978-0226733647
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,654,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)