RITUALS AND ANNALS BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY

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CONTENTS Preface by Marshall SAHLINS xi Editor??s introduction by Rupert STASCH xvii Acknowledgments xxxiii 1. Kingship 1 2. The conquerer becomes king: A political analysis of the Hawaiian legend of ??Umi 35 3. The transformation of a transformation: A structural essay on an aspect of Hawaiian history (1809??19) 63 4. Constitutive history: Genealogy and narrrative in the legitimation of Hawaiian kingship 117 5. Diarchy and history in Hawaii and Tonga 157 6. Death in heaven: Myths and rites of kinship in Tongan kingship 193 7. Descendants of brother and sister in Oceania: Notes for a new analytic model 237 8. Cosmogonic myths and order 263 9. Rite 281 10. The power of the gods, the laughter of men: A theoretical divertissement on a Hawaiian fact 321 11. Ceremonial 347 12. Mourning 363 Appendix I: Belief and worship 377 Appendix II: Feasting and festivity 403 Appendix III: The fetish 417 References 435
Authors: Valerio Valeri
Publisher: The Teaching Company, Year: 2002