Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific

by Nicholas Thomas

Book Overview

Entangled Objects threatens to dislodge the cornerstone of Western anthropology by rendering permanently problematic the idea of reciprocity. All traffic, and commerce, whether economic or intellectual, between Western anthropologists and the rest of the world, is predicated upon the possibility of establishing reciprocal relations between the West and the indigenous peoples it has colonized for centuries.

Drawing on his work on contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674257316
• ISBN13: 9780674257313
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"