Subject: ali'i chief
Culture: Hawaiian
Setting: unification of Hawaii, 1795-1810
Event Photos
* Sahlins 1985 p10
"Young chiefs were sexually initiated by older women, preparing them thus for the sexual conquests that singularly mark a political career: the capture of a senior ancestry. And all this, of course, was celebrated not only in the flesh, but in dance, poetry, and song."
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