The Polynesian Iconoclasm : : Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power / / Jeffrey Sissons.

Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconocla...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (170 p.)
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