Entangled objectsx
Thomas, Nicholas
Entangled objectsx Entangled objects : exchange, material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific / Nicholas Thomas - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. - xiii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Introduction --
Objects, Exchange, Anthropology --
The Permutations of Debt: Exchange Systems in the Pacific --
The Indigenous Appropriation of European Things --
The European Appropriation of Indigenous Things --
The Discovery of the Gift: Exchange and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific.
The author takes up issues central to modern anthropology. In so doing he raises doubts about any simple "us / them" dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with cultural differences by stressing the shared history of colonial entanglement.
9780674257313
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Social Sciences
Culture & institutions
Acculturation -- Oceania.
Oceania -- Social life and customs.
Acculturation.
Economic anthropology.
Material culture.
Kolonialismus
306.30995 THO
Entangled objectsx Entangled objects : exchange, material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific / Nicholas Thomas - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. - xiii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Introduction --
Objects, Exchange, Anthropology --
The Permutations of Debt: Exchange Systems in the Pacific --
The Indigenous Appropriation of European Things --
The European Appropriation of Indigenous Things --
The Discovery of the Gift: Exchange and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific.
The author takes up issues central to modern anthropology. In so doing he raises doubts about any simple "us / them" dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with cultural differences by stressing the shared history of colonial entanglement.
9780674257313
International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Social Sciences
Culture & institutions
Acculturation -- Oceania.
Oceania -- Social life and customs.
Acculturation.
Economic anthropology.
Material culture.
Kolonialismus
306.30995 THO
