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