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

by Marshall Sahlins and Patrick Vinton Kirch

Book Overview

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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226733653
• ISBN13: 9780226733654
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.1"