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Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

On further reflection, however, it seemed to me that it was perhaps a conceit to think that modern societies had progressed so far beyond Melanesia, since Big Men—that is, politicians who distribute resources to their relatives and supporters—are ubiquitous in the contemporary world, including the U.S. Congress.

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

Called “natural-born musicians,” Hawaiians were considered critical to military success.19

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

Marcel Mauss

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Melanesian society is organized tribally, into what anthropologists call segmentary lineages, groups of people who trace their descent to a common ancestor. Numbering anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand kinsmen, these tribes are locally known as wantoks, a pidgin corruption of the English words “one talk,” or people who speak the same langu... See more

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

The noted archaeologist Richard Leakey ascribes the essence of what makes us human to the reciprocity system. He claims that we are human because our ancestors learned to share food and skills “in an honored network of obligation.” Cultural anthropologists such as Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox view this “web of indebtedness” as a unique adaptive mecha

Robert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion

Observers who had previously considered the modes of subsistence and division of labour in North American societies to be trivial matters, or of at best secondary importance, now began assuming that they were the only thing that really mattered. Everyone was to be sorted along the same grand evolutionary ladder, depending on their primary mode of a

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Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

Robert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion

David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity