How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example

by Marshall Sahlins

Book Overview

When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226733696
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An important work in historical anthropology

This book is not everyone's cup of tea, but it is a serious and important work enlivened with a humorous edge. It effectively offers one side of a debate on crucial issues in the human sciences. Its author is a leading figure in anthropology and a major thinker more broadly. Even Sahlin's intellectual opponents would acknowledge this as an important work, one that does not deserve the negative review posted here.