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Entangled objectsx Entangled objects : exchange, material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific / Nicholas Thomas

By: Thomas, NicholasContributor(s): Thomas, NicholasMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991Description: xiii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9780674257313Subject(s): Social Sciences | Culture & institutions | Acculturation -- Oceania | Oceania -- Social life and customs | Acculturation | Economic anthropology | Material culture | KolonialismusDDC classification: 306.30995 THO

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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