Marquesan societies: inequality and political transformations in eastern Polynesia

Abstract

Preface The islands: geography and prehistory Part 1: Early Marquesan social and cultural dynamics: Social groups and their chiefs Property and hierarchy Disentangling tapu Gender and hierarchy Feasting and warfare Between chiefs and shamans: ritual agency and the diffusion of power Part 2: Contact history: short-term transformations: The appropriation of an invader: Opoti and the reorientation of chiefly practice Southern Marquesan transformations Part 3: Prehistory and longer-term change: Crises and social transformations Notes Appendix A: Sources for the study of Marquesan culture and history Appendix B: Polyandry and demography Bibliography: 1. Unpublished works Published Marquesan sources Other works

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 18 citations exist upstream.