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the Hawaiian kapu abolition of 1819 1
Author(s) -
SEATON S. LEE
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1974.1.1.02a00100
Subject(s) - politics , state (computer science) , socioeconomic status , intervention (counseling) , political science , cultural conflict , cultural politics , sociology , religious studies , ethnology , anthropology , law , philosophy , demography , psychology , population , algorithm , psychiatry , computer science
The abolition of the kapu (tabu) system of Hawaii after the death of Kamehameha I in 1819 has been a continuing source of interest as a problem in the explanation of culture change. Divine intervention, church‐state conflict, cultural fatigue, women's liberation, cultural imperialism, socioeconomic evolution, and the politics of state formation have been offered as explanations. The cultural revolution is here reexamined from the integrative framework of “political culture.”