Search Results - "Claessen, HJM"

Ideology, leadership and fertility; Evaluating a model of Polynesian chiefship by Claessen, H.J.M

“…The ritual work was, at one level, the cause of production. Because the chief had a kind of overarching if partial ownership of everything, and because of the…”
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A comment on ‘constructing the early state’, by J.G. Oosten and P. van de Velde (BKI 150-II) by Claessen, H.J.M

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The merry maidens of Matavai; A survey of the views of eighteenth-century participant observers and moralists by Claessen, Henri J.M

“…Long before Captain Wallis entered Matavai Bay in 1767, Dutch navigators like Le Maire and Schouten (1622 and 1618 respectively / 1945), Tasman (1642/1919),…”
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Editorial preface by Claessen, H.J.M

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Identity and development; Tongan culture, agriculture, and the perenniality of the gift [Verhandelingen 213.] by CLAESSEN, H.J.M.

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How unique was Srivijaya? by Claessen, Henri J.M

“…235-88) Jan Wisseman Christie published a substantial, admirable State-of-the-Art Review on 'State Formation in Early Maritime Southeast Asia'. If we imagine…”
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Een vergelijking van de theorieën van Sharp en Suggs over de lange afstandsreizen van de Polynesiërs by Claessen, HJM

“…Wilde de Tahitier reizen, dan Icon hij nu hiervan gebruik maken.4 Tegen de suggestie van een verval van de scheepvaartkundige bekwaamheden op Tahiti voor de…”
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A history of the Pacific islands; Passages through tropical time by CLAESSEN, H.J.M.

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Polynesia in early historic times by CLAESSEN, H.J.M.

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The Internal Dynamics of the Early State [and Comments and Reply] by Henri J. M. Claessen, Bargatzky, Thomas, Cowgill, George L., Diakonoff, I. M., Hagesteijn, Renée R., Hicks, Frederic, Muller, Jean-Claude, Potts, Daniel T., Rowlands, Michael, Sinha, A. C., Warnier, Jean-Pierre

“…This article addresses the question of why only some early states develop into mature ones. The main differences between the two types of states having been…”
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Changing their minds; Tradition and politics in contemporary Fiji and Tonga by CLAESSEN, H.J.M.

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Tongan traditions - On model-building and historical evidence by Claessen, Henri J.M

“…H. Claessen Tongan traditions - On model-building and historical evidence In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 144 (1988), no: 4, Leiden, 433-444…”
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Kingship in the early state by Claessen, H.J

“…[...]the Dictionary does not connect "independent country" and "state". Since the present article aims at stating a general definition of king for…”
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On Culture and Economic Systems by Arutiunov, Serghei, Henri J. M. Claessen

“…According to Serghei Arutiunov (institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR) the approach of A. Lomax & C. Arensberg (abstracted elsewhere in…”
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Hawaiki, ancestral Polynesia; An essay in historical anthropology by CLAESSEN, H.J.M.

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Chiefs today; Traditional Pacific leadership and the postcolonial state by CLAESSEN, H.J.M.

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Tokelau; A historical ethnography by CLAESSEN, H.J.M.

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Home in the islands; Housing and social change in the Pacific by CLAESSEN, H.J.M.

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Despotism and irrigation by Claessen, H.J.M

“…A large quantity of water can be channeled and kept within bounds only by the use of mass labor; and this mass labor must be coordinated, disciplined, and led…”
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A survey of the history of Tonga: Some new views by Claessen, H.J.M

“…For a few years now archaeologists have supplied us with a basis a little more reliable for this research into the past. [...]according to Suggs (p. 87 ff.),…”
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