Item #354945 Making history: Pukapukan and anthropological constructions of knowledge / Robert Borofsky; drawings by David Friedman. Robert Borofsky.

Making history: Pukapukan and anthropological constructions of knowledge / Robert Borofsky; drawings by David Friedman

1989, Reprint. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #354945
ISBN: 0521305209

Physical description: xxii, 201 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. 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.
Education Cook Islands Pukapuka Atoll. Ethnology Methodology.

Price: €21.00

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