Books
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How chiefs became kings | Patrick Vinton Kirch | In How Chiefs Became Kings, PKirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focu… | OL17807961W |
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The captain and "the cannibal" | James Fairhead | "Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quic… | OL19665571W |