Natives Think, First Edition (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A used book with moderate shelf wear to boards and dust jacket. Photos upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Edges faintly foxed, covers slightly warped outwards.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover, with dust jacket, published by University of Chicago Press, 1995. An in-depth look at how non-Western societies have perceived their early interactions with Western explorers. The primary focus being the Hawaiian experience with Captain Cook. 318 pages, with Index, Bibliography, and three maps, 6-1/4" X 9-1/4". The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Sturdy cover boards with black cloth covered spine. Jacket is intact and is not price clipped. The last flyleaf has a diagonal crease at the lower left corner - see photos. Top edge of the text block has a few tiny dots of foxing from age. This copy is not a remainder, not a library discard copy. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st prtg. black boards, black quarter-cloth spine, unclipped color design black dj, all as new cond; black eps, 1 table, 3 b/w maps. 12 txt figures, 318 pp. Size: 6.5"-9.5".

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, very short, closed tear at rear panel top edge, and short crease along top edge. Augmented with three maps. From the publisher's blurb, "When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In How "Natives" Think, Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures.In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawai'i Island in 1779. Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wise to accept the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a "non-native" scholar give voice to a "native" point of view? In his 1992 book The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Gananath Obeyesekere used this very issue to attack Sahlins's decades of scholarship on Hawaii. Accusing Sahlins of elementary mistakes of fact and logic, even of intentional distortion, Obeyesekere portrayed Sahlins as accepting a naive, enthnocentric idea of superiority of the white man over "natives"-Hawaiian and otherwise. Claiming that his own Sri Lankan heritage gave him privileged access to the Polynesian native perspective, Obeyesekere contended that Hawaiians were actually pragmatists too rational and sensible to mistake Cook for a god. Curiously then, as Sahlins shows, Obeyesekere turns eighteenth-century Hawaiians into twentieth-century modern Europeans, living up to the highest Western standards of "practical rationality." By contrast, Western scholars are turned into classic custom-bound "natives", endlessly repeating their ancestral traditions of the White man's superiority by insisting Cook was taken for a god. But this inverted ethnocentrism can only be supported, as Sahlins demonstrates, through wholesale fabrications of Hawaiian ethnography and history-not to mention Obeyesekere's sustained misrepresentations of Sahlins's own work. And in the end, although he claims to be speaking on behalf of the "natives," Obeyesekere, by substituting a home-made "rationality" for Hawaiian culture, systematically eliminates the voices of Hawaiian people from their own history. How "Natives" Think goes far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, it is a reaffirmation for understanding difference." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x, 1-318 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Condition: New. This volume seeks to go far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, is a reaffirmation for understanding difference. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: BG; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430. . 1996. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition, 1995. This book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in near fine condition - not price-clipped; very mild edge wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The author's portrayals of both the Hawaiians and the British are persuasive and deeply penetrating.

Hardcover. Condition: G; blue boards worn and edgewe. First. Hardcover, 392pp, Owner's name on ex-libris label; few pgs at rear of text with pencil notes.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Work first published in French in 1910, this first printing of the First Edition in English in gilt-stamped navy cloth, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages clean & unfoxed, boards show light shelf wear to edges with fraying (and some loss) to cloth at spine ends, spine a little faded but titles clear & legible, an overall Very Good First Edition copy of this enormously influential work in the incipient field of anthropology, quite scarce in the original cloth; 8vo; 392pp indexed.