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0 reviewsAny superlative diminishes Valerio Valeri and his scholarship, which is characterized by rich, subtle, and complex ethnographic and historical information, underscored by formidable theoretical vigor based on extensive fieldwork. His work is comparative, including ethnographic and historical material from ancient Hawaii, Huaulu of Seram, Yap, eastern Indonesia, and Malaysia, but also includes European cultural and political history, philosophy, and classics - all enabled by his scholarly training in Italy and France, as well as having mastered at least eight languages, including ancient Greek and Latin. Hau‘s publication of this collection is an invaluable contribution which transcends the great divide between anthropology and history and reminds us of what an exemplary anthropology should look like.
CONTENTS
Preface by Marshall SAHLINSxi
Editor’s introduction by Rupert STASCHxvii
Acknowledgmentsxxxiii
1. Kingship 1
2. The conquerer becomes king: A political analysis of the Hawaiian legend of ‘Umi35
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 kingship117
5. Diarchy and history in Hawaii and Tonga 157
6. Death in heaven: Myths and rites of kinship in
Tongan kingship193
7. Descendants of brother and sister in Oceania:
Notes for a new analytic model237
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 fact321
11. Ceremonial347
12. Mourning363
Appendix I: Belief and worship377
Appendix II: Feasting and festivity403
Appendix III: The fetish417
References435
