How "Natives" Think

Author	: Marshall Sahlins
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages	: 340
Release	: 1995-05-22
ISBN-10	: 0226733688
ISBN-13	: 9780226733685
Rating	: 4/5 (685 Downloads)

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Download or read book How "Natives" Think written by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-05-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1992 book, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Gananath Obeyesekere used this very issue to attack Sahlins's decades of scholarship on Hawaii. Accusing Sahlins of elementary mistakes of fact and logic, even of intentional distortion, Obeyesekere portrayed Sahlins as accepting a naive, ethnocentric idea of superiority of the white man over "natives" - Hawaiian and otherwise.

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