Entangled objects
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| Glavni autor: | Thomas, Nicholas (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
Harvard University Press,
cop. 1991.
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Sadržaj:
- 1.OBJECTS, EXCHANGE, ANTROPHOLOGY
- Prestations and ideology
- The inalienability of the gift
- Immobile value
- The promiscuity of objects
- Value: A surplus of theories
- 2. THE PERMUTATIONS OF DEBT: EXCHANGE SYSTEMS IN THE PACIFIC
- Alienation in Melanesian Exchange
- Debts and caluables in Fiji and the Marquesas
- Valuables with and without histories
- The origin of whale teeth
- Value conversion versus competition in kind
- 3. THE INDIGENOUS APPROPRIATION OF EUROPEAN THINGS
- The allure of Barter
- The musket economy in the Southern Marquesas
- The representation of the foreign
- The whale tooth trade and Fijian politics
- Prior systems andlater histories
- 4. THE EUROPEAN APPROPRIATION OF INDIGENOUS THINGS
- Curiosity: colonialism in its infancy
- Converted artifacts: thematerial culture of Chrisitan missions
- Murder Stories: settler's curios
- Ethnology and thevision ofthe state
- Artifacts as tokens of industry
- The name of science
- 5. THE DISCOVERY OF THE GIFT: EXCHANGE AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC
- Transformations of Fijian ceremonies
- The disclosure of reciprocity
- Discoveries