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How "natives" think : about Captain Cook, for example

著者: Marshall David Sahlins
出版商: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
版本/格式:   图书 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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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 has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In How "Natives" Think, the distinguished anthropologist Marshall Sahlins addresses these
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提及的人: Gananath Obeyesekere; James Cook; Gananath Obeyesekere; James Cook; Gananath (1930- ) @Obeyesekere; James Cook; James Cook
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所有的著者/提供者: Marshall David Sahlins
ISBN: 0226733688 9780226733685
OCLC号码: 31077028
描述: x, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
内容: Preface --
Introduction --
Captain Cook at Hawaii --
Cook after death --
Historical fiction, makeshift ethnography --
Rationalities : how "natives" think --
Epilogue: Historiography, or symbolic violence --
Appendixes. A. 1. What the sailors knew ; A. 2. Liberalism and culture ; A. 3. On the Kāliʹi rite ; A. 4. Historiography of the Makahiki ; A. 5. Calendrical politics ; A. 6. Cook wrapped ; A. 7. Lono at Hikiau ; A. 8. Clark Gable for Cook? ; A. 9. Blurred images ; A. 10. Cookamamie ; A. 11. Priests' sorrows, women's joys, and stereotypic reproduction ; A. 12. Divine chiefs of Polynesia ; A. 13. Priests and genealogies ; A. 14. On the wrath of Cook ; A. 15. The language problem ; A. 16. Kamakau's gods ; A. 17. Atua in the Marquesas and elsewhere.
责任: Marshall Sahlins.
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摘要:

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 has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In How "Natives" Think, the distinguished anthropologist Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures.

In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawaii island in 1779. Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own God Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wise to accept the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a "non-native" scholar give voice to a "native" point of view? 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. Claiming that his own Sri Lankan heritage gave him privileged access to the Polynesian native perspective, Obeyesekere contended that Hawaiians were actually pragmatists too rational and sensible to mistake Cook for a god.

Curiously then, as Sahlins shows, Obeyesekere turns eighteenth-century Hawaiians into modern Europeans, living up to the highest Western standards of "practical rationality." By contrast, Western scholars are turned into classic, custom-bound "natives," endlessly repeating their ancestral traditions of the white man's superiority by insisting Cook was taken for a Hawaiian god. But this inverted ethnocentrism can only be supported, as Sahlins demonstrates, by wholesale fabrications of Hawaiian ethnography and history - not to mention Obeyesekere's sustained misrepresentations of Sahlins's own work. And in the end, although he claims to be speaking on behalf of "natives," Obeyesekere, by substituting a homemade "rationality" for Hawaiian culture, systematically eliminates the voices of Hawaiian people from their own history.

How "Natives" Think goes far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, it is also a brilliant demonstration of how to do anthropology by one of the discipline's most powerful minds.

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