Political power and rahui in ancient Polynesian society

In keeping with Gell’s¹ theoretical assumptions about the equivalence between ideas and object, this chapter argues that the notion ofrahuicannot be thought of independently of the cultural logic in which it is inscribed. In Oceania, before the sudden appearance of Westerners, the idea of power, par...

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1. Verfasser:	Bernard Rigo
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Zusammenfassung:	In keeping with Gell’s¹ theoretical assumptions about the equivalence between ideas and object, this chapter argues that the notion ofrahuicannot be thought of independently of the cultural logic in which it is inscribed. In Oceania, before the sudden appearance of Westerners, the idea of power, particularly political power, was not distinguished from the idea of the sacred. The power of the Polynesian chief (ari’i, ali’i, ariki, ‘eiki), came frommana; that is, it was founded on the ancestrality of the bond with a particular land (fenua). The practice of rahui was and is an effect of these structural