Making history: Pukapukan and anthropological constructions of knowledge / Robert Borofsky; drawings by David Friedman
1987, 1st Edition. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #354943
ISBN: 0521305209
Physical description: 200 pages, illustrations. Contents: Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Foreword Alan Howard -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Differing accounts of the past -- 2. Pukapukan social organization: A perspective on anthropological ways of knowing -- 3. Acquiring traditional knowledge: Pukapukan ways of knowing, Part I -- 4. Validating traditional knowledge: Pukapukan ways of knowing, Part II -- 5. Making history -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects: Ethnology Cook Islands Pukapuka Atoll. Knowledge, Theory of. Ethnology Methodology.
Polynesians Social life and customs Cook Islands.
Price: €28.00