Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom
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Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom

Marshall Sahlins
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Assoc. for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Special Pubs. No. 1 Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation.
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