How Chiefs Became Kings

How Chiefs Became Kings
Title How Chiefs Became Kings PDF eBook
Author Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 286
Release 2019-05-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0520303393

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In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of “archaic states” whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, traditional history, and theory, and drawing on significant contributions from his own four decades of research, Kirch argues that Hawaiian polities had become states before the time of Captain Cook’s voyage (1778-1779). The status of most archaic states is inferred from the archaeological record. But Kirch shows that because Hawai`i’s kingdoms were established relatively recently, they could be observed and recorded by Cook and other European voyagers. Substantive and provocative, this book makes a major contribution to the literature of precontact Hawai`i and illuminates Hawai`i’s importance in the global theory and literature about divine kingship, archaic states, and sociopolitical evolution.

The Guitar

The Guitar
Title The Guitar PDF eBook
Author Chris Gibson
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 291
Release 2021-05-05
Genre Music
ISBN 022676396X

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"Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an afficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instruments were made. And she will likely also tell you about the wood they were made from and its unique effects on the instruments' sound. In Following Guitars, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren trace guitars all the way back to the tree. It is a book about musical instrument making, the timbers and trees from which guitars are made. It chronicles the authors' journeys across the world, to guitar festivals, factories, remote sawmills, Indigenous lands, and distant rainforests, in search of the behind-the-scenes stories of how guitars are made, where the much-cherished guitar timbers ultimately come from, and the people and skills involved along the way. The authors are able to unlock insights on longer arcs of world history: on the human exploitation of nature, colonialism, industrial capitalism, and cultural change. They end on a parable of wider resonance: of the incredible but unappreciated skill and care that goes into growing and felling trees, milling timber, and making enchanted musical instruments; set against the human tendency to reform our use (and abuse) of natural resources only when it appears too late"--

Sharks upon the Land

Sharks upon the Land
Title Sharks upon the Land PDF eBook
Author Seth Archer
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 303
Release 2018-04-26
Genre History
ISBN 1107174562

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A study of colonialism and indigenous health in Hawaiʻi, highlighting cultural change over time.

Minor Majesties

Minor Majesties
Title Minor Majesties PDF eBook
Author Associate Professor of History and Archaeology of the Indian World Valérie Gillet
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 409
Release 2024
Genre History
ISBN 0197757715

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Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Pa?uvūr, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern South-Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Author Valérie Gillet extensively surveys four temples dedicated to the god Śiva that were built during this period, combining in-depth analyses of their materiality, their location, and their epigraphy. Through these, Gillet provides a better understanding of the complexities related to temple sponsorship, organisation, and functioning as well as how these religious monuments became a place for the fabrication of political discourses and powers, specific social configurations, and religious practices.Â

Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?

Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?
Title Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century? PDF eBook
Author Ronald M. Glassman
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 271
Release 2021-07-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 303076821X

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This book analyzes the many threats to democracy that exist in the 21st century and tries to understand how democracy can survive economic, social and political crises. It focuses on issues of oligarchy, tyranny, totalitarianism, and ochlocracy. It discusses how these forms of governance manifested themselves in ancient and medieval worlds, and how socio-economic transitions in the 21st century have created conditions that increasingly pose similar threats to modern democracy. The author discusses broad transitions in the contemporary world: economic transition to advanced, high technology capitalism; cultural transition from traditional religious and family values to norms focusing on racial equality, gender and transgender equality and liberation, and multiculturalism; also, transition from the traditional religious worldview to rational-scientific worldview, and from religious morality to secular humanist ethics. These taken together undergird the political transition from traditional authority, involving monarchy and aristocracy, to rational-legal authority, involving constitutional law and democratic participation. The book shows, through extensive country discussions, that whenever these transitions become difficult, undemocratic forms of governance may emerge and override democracy. Authored by an expert in the field, this book touches upon an especially topical theme in the contemporary world and is of interest to a wide readership across the social sciences, from researchers and students to discerning laypersons.

Journal of the Switchmen's Union

Journal of the Switchmen's Union
Title Journal of the Switchmen's Union PDF eBook
Author Switchmen's Union of North America
Publisher
Pages 850
Release 1909
Genre Railroads
ISBN

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Railway Carmen's Journal

Railway Carmen's Journal
Title Railway Carmen's Journal PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 800
Release 1910
Genre Railroads
ISBN

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