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Beschreibung
The unravelling of an anthropological puzzle concerning a Polynesian island's social organization clarifies the strength and limitations of the anthropological approach to constructing knowledge.
The unravelling of an anthropological puzzle concerning a Polynesian island's social organization clarifies the strength and limitations of the anthropological approach to constructing knowledge.
Über den Autor
Dr. Borofsky is Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology and a Professor of Anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University. Including this book, he is the author or editor of eight books dealing with constructions of knowledge in the Pacific islands-such as Making History (1987) and Remembrance of Pacific Pasts (2000)-and the current state of cultural anthropology, including Assessing Cultural Anthropology (1994), Yanomami (2005), and Showing Anthropology Matters (2018).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations; Foreword Alan Howard; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Differing accounts of the past; 2. Pukapukan social organization: A perspective on anthropological ways of knowing; 3. Acquiring traditional knowledge: Pukapukan ways of knowing, Part I; 4. Validating traditional knowledge: Pukapukan ways of knowing, Part II; 5. Making history; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521396486
ISBN-10: 0521396484
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Borofsky, Robert
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Borofsky
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.12.1987
Gewicht: 0,371 kg
Artikel-ID: 106631896