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Social Transformation in Old Hawai'I: A Bottom-Up Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas S. Dye
Thomas S. Dye*
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T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, 735 Bishop St., Suite 315, Honolulu, HI 96813 (tsd@tsdye.com)
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Abstract

A bottom-up approach based in structuralism and Marxism cast in the "old language of rights" is used to explain traditional Hawaiian import of metric tons of poor-quality oven stone to the Waimanalo Plain, and to explain decline in the traditional use of tree firewood. The presence of poor-quality oven stones and the pattern of tree firewood use are linked to a long-term decline in the importance of rights of person and a concomitant increase of rights of property associated with the demise of lineage organization and the development of social stratification. It is argued that a bottom-up approach is more productive in the current archaeological situation than a top-down approach based in functionalism and neoevolutionary theory.

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Resumen

Algunos sitios arqueológicos del llano de Waimanalo, Isla de Oahu de las Islas Hawaianas, contienen toneladas métricas de piedra de cocinar de mala calidad, toda importada desde afuera. Un enfoque basado en estructuralismo y en Marxismo es utilizado para explicar estos datos. Es decir que es un caso social de "abajo hasta arriba" fundida en la "vieja lengua de derechos" y que sirve para promover una hipótesis que resulta en el descubrimiento de la disminución en el uso tradicional de leña. La presencia de piedra de cocinar de mala calidad y la trayectoria del uso de leña son vinculadas a una disminución de largo plazo de la importancia de los derechos de la persona y un aumento de los derechos de propiedad asociado con la desaparición del poder de linaje y el desarrollo de la estratificación social. La propuesta es que un enfoque de estructuralismo es más productivo para explicar la situación arqueológica que un enfoque de "arriba hasta abajo" basado en funcionalismo y la teoría de neo-evolución.

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American Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 727 - 741
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 2010

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