Kingship and Sacrifice : Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226845605
ISBN-13
9780226845609
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 15th, 1985
Print length
474 Pages
Weight
748 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 23.00 x 3.50 cms
Product Classification:
Tribal religionsWorship, rites & ceremoniesAnthropology
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Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
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