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Patrick Vinton Kirch

A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief

The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i

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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.This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain J… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-520-95383-3
  • EAN: 9780520953833
  • Produktnummer: 21596141
  • Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 368 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 6'804 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Patrick Vinton Kirch is Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and author of On the Road of the Winds and How Chiefs Became Kings (UC Press), among other books.

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