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Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific


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Thomas takes up issues central to modern anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions, and the significance of material objects in social life. He raises doubts about any simple “us/them” dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders.

Table of Contents:
Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Objects, Exchange, Anthropology Prestations and Ideology The Inalienabililty of the Gift Immobile Value The Promiscuity of Objects Value: A Surplus of Theories Chapter 2: The Permutations of Debt: Exchange Systems in the Pacific Alienation in Melanesian Exchange Debts and Valuables in Fiji and the Marquesas Valuables with and without Histories The Origin of Whale Teeth Value Conversion versus Competition in Kind Chapter 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 and Later Histories Chapter 4: The European Appropriation of Indigenous Things Curiosity: Colonialism in Its Infancy Converted Artifacts: The Material Culture of Christian Missions Murder Stories: Settlers’ Curios Ethnology and the Vision of the State Artifacts as Tokens of Industry The Name of Science Chapter 5: The Discovery of the Gift: Exchange and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific Transformations of Fijian Ceremonies The Disclosure of Reciprocity Discoveries Notes Index

Review :
Powerful and provocative. -- Roy Wagner, University of Virginia


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674044326
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 279
  • ISBN-10: 0674044320
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific


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