Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 1: Historical Ethnography (Paperback)

by Patrick Vinton Kirch (Author), Marshall Sahlins (Author) "To situate the Anahulu Valley in the Hawaiian scheme of nature is to endow it with history as well as cultural order..." (more)
Key Phrases: kupuna kin, sandalwood era, local konohiki, Land Commission, Anahulu Valley, Great Awakening (more...)

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
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Product Description

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 251 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (July 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226733653
• ISBN-13: 978-0226733654
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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