Making History : Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521396484
ISBN-13
9780521396486
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 27th, 1990
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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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.
In 1976, inhabitants of Pakapuka, an island in the South Pacific, revived a traditional form of social organization that several Pakapukan's claimed to have experienced from their youth, but that anthropologists had not recorded. Had the Pakapukans invented it or had the anthropologists failed to record it? Professor Borofsky compares two different ways of 'making history'.
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