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Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii
University of Chicago Press, 1985 Cloth: 978-0-226-84559-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-84560-9 Library of Congress Classification BL2620.H3V35 1985 Dewey Decimal Classification 299.92
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture. See other books on: Comparative Religion | Hawaii | Kings and rulers | Rites and ceremonies | Sacrifice See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii
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University of Chicago Press, 1985
Cloth: 978-0-226-84559-3
Paper: 978-0-226-84560-9
Cloth: 978-0-226-84559-3
Paper: 978-0-226-84560-9
Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
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