CONTENTS
Preface by Marshall SAHLINS
xi
Editor’s introduction by Rupert STASCH
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxxiii
1. Kingship 1
2. The conquerer becomes king: A political analysis
of the Hawaiian legend of ‘Umi
35
3. The transformation of a transformation: A structural
essay on an aspect of Hawaiian history (1809–19)
63
4. Constitutive history: Genealogy and narrrative in
the legitimation of Hawaiian kingship
117
5. Diarchy and history in Hawaii and Tonga 157
6. Death in heaven: Myths and rites of kinship in
Tongan kingship
193
7. Descendants of brother and sister in Oceania:
Notes for a new analytic model
237
8. Cosmogonic myths and order 263
9. Rite 281
10. The power of the gods, the laughter of men: A
theoretical divertissement on a Hawaiian fact
321
11. Ceremonial 347
12. Mourning 363
Appendix I: Belief and worship 377
Appendix II: Feasting and festivity 403
Appendix III: The fetish
417
References 435