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Entangled Objects
Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific
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Nicholas Thomas
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English
Published/Copyright:
1991
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Thomas takes up issues central to modern anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions, and the significance of material objects in social life. He raises doubts about any simple “us/them” dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders.
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Powerful and provocative.
-- Roy Wagner, University of Virginia
-- Roy Wagner, University of Virginia
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Objects, Exchange, Anthropology
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2. The Permutations of Debt: Exchange Systems in the Pacific
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3. The Indigenous Appropriation of European Things
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4. The European Appropriation of Indigenous Things
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5. The Discovery of the Gift: Exchange and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific
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Notes
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Index
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9780674044326
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279
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