Book
A study of prehistoric social change: the development of complex societies in the Hawaiian Islands
Academic Press • New York • Published In 1981 • Pages: xii, 275
By: Cordy, Ross H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Cordy used Hawaiian oral traditions and Polynesian ethnographic data to form hypotheses about the development of complex societies in prehistoric Hawaii. Cordy believes 'the nature of a change should be adequately established before attempts at explanation are made,' so one third of the book is spent on hypothesis formation. The hypotheses were evaluated with archaeological data mostly from the island of Hawaii. He looked at settlement patterns, territorial size, households, burials, and compared labor expenditures involved in the above to determine when social echelons and when two- and three-district societies arose in Hawaii.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Classes
- Districts
- Chief executive
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hawaiian
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ross H. Cordy
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 253-267) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81010825
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hawaii--Antiquities