Fishhooks and Adzes: The pointed and edgy nexus of culture, technology, and early capitalism in Hawai'i

The political economy of European contact, emergent colonialism, and the construction of culture are understudied topics of Pacific archaeology. This study examines the dynamic nature of Hawaiian technologies as they were materi alized in the persistence of shell fishhooks and stone adzes after the arrival of Europeans in AD 1778. Archaeological site records and documentary accounts reveal that Hawaiians continued to make shell fishhooks and...