This article compares the geographic and organisational patterns of four major chiefly ceremonial places in the Society Islands. On the island of Tahiti, archaeological data relating to monumental temple ( marae ari‘i ) architecture is integrated with ethnohistoric records and toponymic analysis to reconstruct local ethnohistories of the Tahitian chiefdoms of Vaiari, Papara and Manotahi (Puna‘auia). The ethnohistoric records identify a shift in the location of major religious and ceremonial centres, from original inland locations to coastal sites, around the end of the 17th and 18th centuries in the context of strong political influences from the Leeward Society Islands. The patterns of late Tahitian ceremonial complexes are compared with archaeological and ethnohistorical data from the chiefdom of Opoa on Ra‘iatea Island, where the same model of spatial and diachronic evolution seems to have previously occurred. This analysis suggests that chiefdom of Opoa, focused on the great marae Taputapuatea, had a strong influence on Tahitian polities, through the foundation of new marae Taputapuatea in the Windward Islands and accompanied by new boundaries which demarcated sacred landscapes.

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从山谷到海岸：社会群岛塔希提岛和拉伊阿特亚礼仪中心空间演变的假说

本文比较了社会群岛中四个主要主要礼仪场所的地理和组织模式。在塔希提岛上，与不朽庙宇（marae ari'i）建筑有关的考古数据与民族史记录和地名分析相结合，以重建瓦伊阿里，帕帕拉和马诺塔希（Puna'auia）大溪地首领的地方民族历史。民族史记录表明，在背风社会群岛强大的政治影响下，大约在17世纪和18世纪末，主要宗教和礼仪中心的位置已从原始内陆位置转移到沿海地区。将塔希提式晚期仪式建筑群的模式与Ra'iatea岛Opoa酋长的考古和民族历史数据进行了比较，以前似乎曾经发生过相同的时空演化模型。该分析表明，以迎风群岛上新的玛塔·塔普塔普亚塔为基础，并伴随着划定神圣地貌的新边界，集中在伟大的玛塔·塔普塔普亚塔上的奥普阿酋长对大溪地政体具有强大的影响力。