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- catalog abstract ""Inventing Politics is a theoretical statement of a new kind of political anthropology. Through an extensive use of primary sources, including many contemporary Hawaiian-language newspapers and dictionaries, it argues that what informs our current understanding of politics was already present in the early nineteenth-century encounters between Hawaiians and foreigners - a reading that translates seemingly apolitical events into the language of politics and speaks to the fundamental question of whether politics is a functional aspect of every society or an invention based on specific cultural meanings and interests."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12815199.
- catalog coverage "Hawaii Ethnic relations.".
- catalog coverage "Hawaii Kings and rulers.".
- catalog coverage "Hawaii Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Inventing Politics is a theoretical statement of a new kind of political anthropology. Through an extensive use of primary sources, including many contemporary Hawaiian-language newspapers and dictionaries, it argues that what informs our current understanding of politics was already present in the early nineteenth-century encounters between Hawaiians and foreigners - a reading that translates seemingly apolitical events into the language of politics and speaks to the fundamental question of whether politics is a functional aspect of every society or an invention based on specific cultural meanings and interests."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-240) and index.".
- catalog description "Natives and foreigners: the cultural order of Hawaii's early missionization -- The politics of virtue -- Culture in the making: the rise of political discourse -- Political economy -- Natural rights, virtuous wealth -- The denouement: untranslated experiences.".
- catalog extent "xii, 248 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Inventing politics.".
- catalog identifier "082481486X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Inventing politics.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press,".
- catalog relation "Inventing politics.".
- catalog spatial "Hawaii Ethnic relations.".
- catalog spatial "Hawaii Kings and rulers.".
- catalog spatial "Hawaii Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Hawaii.".
- catalog subject "305.8/009969 21".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Hawaii.".
- catalog subject "GN671.H3 M95 2003".
- catalog subject "Political anthropology Hawaii.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Natives and foreigners: the cultural order of Hawaii's early missionization -- The politics of virtue -- Culture in the making: the rise of political discourse -- Political economy -- Natural rights, virtuous wealth -- The denouement: untranslated experiences.".
- catalog title "Inventing politics : a new political anthropology of the Hawaiian kingdom / Juri Mykkänen.".
- catalog type "text".