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Sinossi
Nessuna comunità umana, per quanto all'apparenza statica, confinata, isolata, può essere considerata a ragion veduta "fredda" o "fuori della storia". Lo evidenzia qui Marshall Sahlins, presentando i suoi studi su alcuni popoli del Pacifico, in particolare gli Hawaiani, presso i quali, avendo violato lo status rituale attribuitogli dagli indigeni, trovò la morte il famoso navigatore James Cook, meglio noto come capitano Cook. Sahlins sottolinea appunto che quelle "isole" (oltre alle Hawaii, le Figi e la Nuova Zelanda) hanno la loro storia che si intreccia con quella europea e, parallelamente, critica il modo "insulare" di pensare di molti studiosi occidentali, che hanno creato false dicotomie fra passato e presente, fra struttura ed evento, fra individuo e società, e sono stati a lungo indotti a ignorare le storie degli altri.
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- Pagine: 213
- Data di uscita: 03-11-2016
Recensioni
Marshall Sahlins' Islands of History (1985) is an interesting (and currently relevant) intervention in the early 1980s academic contention over the cultural turn. The book is a compilation of five lectures given between 1981-1983. As someone with limited exposure to anthropological methods,it was a
Antropologijos studija per Cook'o susitikimus su Havajų vietiniais polineziečiais. Civilizacijų sandūros aiškinimas pateikiamas išaiškinimu, kodėl polineziečiai pirmąjį kartą išvydę Cook'ą ir visą ekspediciją juos garbina kaip dievus, moterys veržiasi su keliautojais permiegoti, ir vagia visus daikt Leggi tutto
Marshall Sahlins is one of the most encompassing American Anthropological minds. What ever one has to say about the final outcome of his analysis, it is always compelling. In these collected essays of Polynesian historical ethnology, Sahlins continually reminds us of the most important realization o Leggi tutto
Y así es como me enamoré de Marshall Sahlins.
An exceptionally boring and dry book of seemingly irrelevant description of Hawaiian and Polynesian ‘first contacts’, saved by a fantastic final chapter that finally actually says something about the preceding chapters and gives them some purpose. The thesis of the book is essentially; All events ha Leggi tutto
"just proposed a 'naive phenomenology of symbolic action' to counteract stagnant structuralism and binaristic oppositions in anthropological theory (also mark of old school structuralism... #saussure) i mean. i am a hater but maybe i do love social theory shit kind of based structure/agency is so 80s b Leggi tutto
Found this in a syllabus and thought it would be an interesting read. Examining the historical / cultural event (which are apparently antithetical to each other) of Cook landing in Hawaii a second time after his departure, when he was killed by the Hawaiians is truly one of the strangest events in h Leggi tutto
read it for university
Sahlins at it again. Great book.
'COS YOUUU MY PREACIOUS BITCH BOYYYY ARE TRIPPIN' BAAAAAALLSSSS!!!! I just wanted to pass an history exam but this book is written in the most dreamlike and trippy style I've ever read. Like...wtf?
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