How natives think about Captain Cook for example

Marshall Sahlins

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: University of Chicago Press, USA, 1996

0226733696 / 9780226733692

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When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perp etuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Question s such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual li fe. In How Natives Think, Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures. In recent years, t hese questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawai'i Island in 1779. Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wis e to accept the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a non-native scholar give vo ice to a native point of view? In his 1992 book The Apotheosis of Captain C ook, Gananath Obeyesekere used this very issue to attack Sahlins's decades o f scholarship on Hawaii. Accusing Sahlins of elementary mistakes of fact and log ic, even of intentional distortion, Obeyesekere portrayed Sahlins as accepting a naive, enthnocentric idea of superiority of the white man over natives—H awaiian and otherwise. Claiming that his own Sri Lankan heritage gave him privil eged access to the Polynesian native perspective, Obeyesekere contended that Haw aiians were actually pragmatists too rational and sensible to mistake Cook for a god. Curiously then, as Sahlins shows, Obeyesekere turns eighteenth-ce ntury Hawaiians into twentieth-century modern Europeans, living up to the highes t Western standards of practical rationality. By contrast, Western scholars ar.

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Titolo
How natives think about Captain Cook for example
Autore
Marshall Sahlins
Editore
University of Chicago Press, USA
Anno di pubblicazione
1996
Condizione
Good
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Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0226733696
ISBN 13
9780226733692
Dimensioni
1.9cm x 14.9cm x 23.1cm
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