02310nam a22003377i 4500 20261016202629.0 261016s1995 xx ||||| |||||||| 0|eng d 9780226733685 0226733688 (KOHALIB)isbn-9780226733685 KOHALIB eng rda KOHALIB 996.90072 23 Sahlins, Marshall. How "natives" think : about Captain Cook, for example / Marshall Sahlins. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995. 318 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Inventory: Single copy, entry 592; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A Ethnology Historiography Attitudes Ethnologists Philosophy Hawaiian Mythology History Ethnology, Polynesia BOOK ddc 579 579 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC MAIN MAIN 2026-10-16 0 996.900 SAH LIB02022 2026-10-16 20:26:29 2026-10-16 BOOK