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The Polynesian Iconoclasm : Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power / Jeffrey Sissons.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (170 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782384137
  • 9781782384144
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  • 996 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of Polynesia and Other Pacific Islands -- Introduction: Exploding History -- 1 The Seasonality of Life -- 2 The Mo‘orean Iconoclasm -- 3 Pomare’s Iconoclasm as Seasonal Sacrifice -- 4 More Distant Emulations -- 5 Re-consecrating the World -- 6 Re-binding Societies -- 7 New Tabus and Ancient Pleasures -- 8 History, Habitus and Seasonality -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Summary: Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconoclasm, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches — one the size of two football fields — were constructed. At the same time, Christian leaders introduced oppressive laws and courts, which the youth resisted through seasonal displays of revelry and tattooing. Seeking an answer to why this event occurred in the way that it did, this book introduces and demonstrates an alternative “practice history” that draws on the work of Marshall Sahlins and employs Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of Polynesia and Other Pacific Islands -- Introduction: Exploding History -- 1 The Seasonality of Life -- 2 The Mo‘orean Iconoclasm -- 3 Pomare’s Iconoclasm as Seasonal Sacrifice -- 4 More Distant Emulations -- 5 Re-consecrating the World -- 6 Re-binding Societies -- 7 New Tabus and Ancient Pleasures -- 8 History, Habitus and Seasonality -- Appendix -- References -- Index

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Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconoclasm, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches — one the size of two football fields — were constructed. At the same time, Christian leaders introduced oppressive laws and courts, which the youth resisted through seasonal displays of revelry and tattooing. Seeking an answer to why this event occurred in the way that it did, this book introduces and demonstrates an alternative “practice history” that draws on the work of Marshall Sahlins and employs Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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