wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Roots of Conflict: Soils, Agriculture, and Sociopolitical Complexity in Ancient Hawai'i
ISBN: 9781934691267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Roots of Conflict presents the efforts of a team of social and natural scientists to understand the complex, systemic linkages between land, climate, crops, human populations, and their cultural structures. The research group has focused on what might seem to some an unlikely locale to investigate a set of problems with worldwide significance: the Hawaiian Islands. Though it is perhaps the most isolated archipelago on Earth, Hawai'i is a "model system" for teasing out key connections between land, agriculture, and society.
Roots of Conflict presents the efforts of a team of social and natural scientists to understand the complex, systemic linkages between land, climat... |
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180,20 zł |
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i
ISBN: 9780520303416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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160,65 zł |
Kua'āina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui
ISBN: 9780824839550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In early Hawai'i, kua'aina were the hinterlands inhabited by na kua'aina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much skill and hard work were required to wrest a living from the lava landscapes. The ancient district of Kahikinui in southeast Maui is such a kua'aina and remains one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land in the islands. Named after Tahiti Nui in the Polynesian homeland, its thousands of pristine acres house a treasure trove of archaeological ruins--witnesses to the generations of Hawaiians who made this land their home before it was abandoned... In early Hawai'i, kua'aina were the hinterlands inhabited by na kua'aina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much sk... |
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283,82 zł |
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology
ISBN: 9780521788793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green develop the theory and method of an anthropological approach to long-term history. Combining archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. Through an analysis of the history of Polynesian cultures they present a first-time detailed reconstruction of Hawaiki, the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished some 2,500 years ago. This book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian,...
In this innovative book, Kirch and Green develop the theory and method of an anthropological approach to long-term history. Combining archaeology, com...
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217,11 zł |
Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 1: Historical Ethnography
ISBN: 9780226733654 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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... 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 cr...
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192,78 zł |
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact
ISBN: 9780520292819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue carvers of remote Easter Island, and the famed traders of Melanesia. Decades of archaeological excavations, combined with allied research in historical linguistics, biological anthropology, and comparative ethnography, have revealed much new information about the long-term history of these...
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and cu...
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203,49 zł |
How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i
ISBN: 9780520267251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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...
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of archaic states wh...
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499,85 zł |
How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i
ISBN: 9780520303393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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160,65 zł |
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i
ISBN: 9780520273306 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire archipelago....
Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their...
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267,59 zł |
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives
ISBN: 9780824831486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai'i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographers. In their accounts of exploration, early European voyagers in the Pacific frequently described the teeming populations they encountered... Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for ... |
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197,87 zł |
Kua\'āina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui
ISBN: 9780824896812 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In early Hawai‘i, kua‘āina were the hinterlands inhabited by nā kua‘āina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much skill and hard work were required to wrest a living from the lava landscapes. The ancient district of Kahikinui in southeast Maui is such a kua‘āina and remains one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land in the islands. Named after Tahiti Nui in the Polynesian homeland, its thousands of pristine acres house a treasure trove of archaeological ruins—witnesses to the generations of Hawaiians who made this land their home before it was...
In early Hawai‘i, kua‘āina were the hinterlands inhabited by nā kua‘āina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where m...
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187,16 zł |
Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation
ISBN: 9780521105439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change. From the 1950s onwards, excavations in such islands as Fiji, Palau and Hawaii revolutionised Oceanic archaeology and, as the major problems of cultural origins and island sequences were resolves, archaeologists came increasingly to study social change and to integrate newly acquired data on material culture with older ethnographic and...
Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of island...
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152,95 zł |
Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 2: The Archaeology of History
ISBN: 9780226733661 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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... 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 cr...
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214,20 zł |
Heiau, 'Āina, Lani: The Hawaiian Temple System in Ancient Kahikinui and Kaupō, Maui
ISBN: 9780824878276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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401,63 zł |
The Lapita Peoples: Basis in Mathematics and Physics
ISBN: 9781577180364 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This is the first account of the Lapita peoples, the common ancestor of the Polynesians, Micronesians, and Austronesian-speaking Melanesians who over the last 4000 years colonized the islands of the Pacific, including New Zealand and territories as far afield as Fiji and Hawaii. Its purpose is to provide answers to some of the most puzzling archaeological and anthropological questions: who were the Lapita peoples? what was their history? how were they able to travel such great distances? and why did they do so? Recent discoveries (several by the author of this book) have begun at last to...
This is the first account of the Lapita peoples, the common ancestor of the Polynesians, Micronesians, and Austronesian-speaking Melanesians who over ...
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208,58 zł |
Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist
ISBN: 9780824853457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocean, from Mussau to Hawai'i to Easter Island. In this lively memoir, rich with personal--and often amusing--anecdotes, Kirch relates his many adventures while doing fieldwork on remote islands. At the age of thirteen, Kirch was accepted as a summer intern by the eccentric Bishop Museum zoologist Yoshio Kondo and was soon participating in... Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years... |
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240,71 zł |
The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
ISBN: 9780521273169 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data have since been exploited. The author combines this fresh archaeological data with comparative ethnographic and linguistic materials to present an innovative and perceptive account of the processes of culture change in the islands over three millennia. Using comparative ethnography, lexical...
This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of comp...
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335,57 zł |