How "natives" think : about Captain Cook, for example / Marshall Sahlins
- Bib ID:
- 661854
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sahlins, Marshall David, 1930-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995
- x, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0226733688
- Summary:
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Examination of the construction and interpretation of culture and rationality in anthropology and history; historical and contemporary role of culture in western and Indigenous contexts; critique of the work of Obeyesekere and the deification of Cook in Hawaii; argues for the need to recognise and engage with cultural difference in the writing of colonial history; includes brief reference to Aborigines.
- Full contents:
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- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Captain Cook at Hawaii
- 2. Cook after Death
- 3. Historical Fiction, Makeshift Ethnography
- 4. Rationalities: How "Natives" Think
- Epilogue: Historiography, or Symbolic Violence
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Bibliography; p. 287-301; Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pp. 287-301) and index.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
- Subject:
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- Obeyesekere, Gananath. The apotheosis of Captain Cook
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Ethnology -- Polynesia
- Hawaiian mythology
- Ethnology -- Hawaii -- Philosophy
- Ethnologists -- Attitudes
- Hawaii -- History -- To 1893 -- Historiography
- Indigenous populations
- Cultural anthropology
- Hawaii
- Stereotypes
- Captain Cook
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