Robert Borofsky

Broschiertes Buch

Making History

Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge

Beschreibung

The unravelling of an anthropological puzzle concerning a Polynesian island's social organization clarifies the strength and limitations of the anthropological approach to constructing knowledge.

Autor

Dr. Borofsky is Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology and a Professor of Anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University. Including this book, he is the author or editor of eight books dealing with constructions of knowledge in the Pacific islands-such as Making History (1987) and Remembrance of Pacific Pasts (2000)-and the current state of cultural anthropology, including Assessing Cultural Anthropology (1994), Yanomami (2005), and Showing Anthropology Matters (2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780521396486
• ISBN-10: 0521396484
• Artikelnr.: 22093328