Entangled objects
Subtitle: exchange, material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific
By: Nicholas Thomas.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Material culture -- Oceania.; Exchange -- Oceania.; Acculturation -- Oceania.; Economic anthropology -- Oceania.; Oceania -- Social life and customs.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-255) and index.