Islands of History
by Marshall Sahlins
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Author: Marshall SahlinsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-04-15
ISBN: 0226733580
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
Marshall Sahlins, a renowned expert in Polynesian archaeology, has produced an excellent, well-written book that focuses on synchrony and diachrony in archaeology, as reflected in the early encounters between Captain Cook and the early Polynesians. This book is essential reading for scholars interested in the concepts of cyclical and linear time. The text also demonstrates that the early Polynesians, like many other non-western societies, in fact had a dynamic, recursive history before European contact; a history not based on written records but rather on a rich array of oral traditions. Essentially, this book can be used as an important frame of reference for scholars of other early oceanic societies, for example pre-Columbian societies in the Caribbean, particularly with respect to issues of European contact and indigenous time reckoning and time conception.
Summary of Islands of History
Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands?Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand?whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western history and anthropology.
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