TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas, Nicholas
AU  - Thomas, Nicholas
TI  - Entangled objectsx: Entangled objects : exchange, material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific
SN  - 9780674257313
U1  - 306.30995 THO 
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  -  : Harvard University Press, 
KW  -  Social Sciences
KW  -  Culture & institutions
KW  - Acculturation -- Oceania
KW  - Oceania -- Social life and customs
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - Economic anthropology
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Kolonialismus
N1  - 	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
N2  - 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
ER  -