Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities

Author: Marshall D. Sahlins

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009-07-09

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0472022342

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Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation

Islands of History
Islands of History

Author: Marshall Sahlins

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-03-06

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 022616215X

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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.