Anahulu (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Patrick V. Kirch, Marshall Sahlins
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Anthropology, archaeology, and history
- Time of Work: Prehistory to the mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: The Anahulu Valley in O’ahu, Hawaii
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
- Subjects: Culture, Religion, Moral conditions, Capitalism, Archaeology or archaeologists, Imperialism
- Locales: Hawaii
Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii is a monument of interdisciplinary scholarship. The work is divided into two volumes: Volume 1, Historical Ethnography, was written by Marshall Sahlins with the assistance of Dorothy Barrère; volume 2, The Archaeology of History, was written by Patrick Kirch with the assistance of Sahlins, Marshall Weisler, and Matthew Spriggs. Introducing their respective volumes, however, Sahlins and Kirch both emphasize the thoroughly collaborative nature of their enterprise.
Sahlins is an anthropologist who...
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