How "Natives" Think

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Anthropology/History
Dubbed as one of the "Year's Best" by the Voice Literary Supplement, How "Natives" Think goes far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. It is a brilliant demonstration of how to do anthropology by one of the discipline's most powerful minds.
When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings an^ logics of non-Western people? In this considered response to Gananath Obeyesekere's The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Marshall Sahlins addresses these questions while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures.
"Forceful, learned and persuasive."
—Richard Bernstein, New York Times
"With truly mesmerizing authority . . . this [is an] analytical masterpiece. . . . Anyone seriously interested in anthropology and history should read this timely... Tovább

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Anthropology/History
Dubbed as one of the "Year's Best" by the Voice Literary Supplement, How "Natives" Think goes far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. It is a brilliant demonstration of how to do anthropology by one of the discipline's most powerful minds.
When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings an^ logics of non-Western people? In this considered response to Gananath Obeyesekere's The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Marshall Sahlins addresses these questions while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures.
"Forceful, learned and persuasive."
—Richard Bernstein, New York Times
"With truly mesmerizing authority . . . this [is an] analytical masterpiece. . . . Anyone seriously interested in anthropology and history should read this timely book." —Brian Pagan, Washington Post Book World
"A splendid work of refutation and revenge, judicious but remorseless, urbane yet gritty." —Ian Hacking, London Review of Books
'This is a book that should be read by anyone with the slightest interest in what is at stake in interpreting the past." —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe
"Persuasive. His portrayals of both the Hawaiians and the British [are] deeply penetrating." —Clifford Geertz, New York Review of Books
Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he is the author of, among other books, Culture and Practical Reason; Islands of History; and Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Vissza