Hawaii: Gift Exchange And Interpretations Of Captain Cook In The Traditional Kingdoms Of The Hawaiian Islands

Hawaii: Gift Exchange And Interpretations Of Captain Cook In The Traditional Kingdoms Of The Hawaiian Islands   Thomas S. Dye, and Colleagues, 2011   The relationship between the kanaka maoli people of the traditional kingdoms of the Hawaiian Islands and Captain James Cook and his crew is interpreted in the context of a theory of gift exchange. It is argued that interpretations of kanaka maoli behaviour based on an implicit assumption that social relations were structured primarily by...

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