Making history : Pukapukan and anthropological constructions of knowledge
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Making history : Pukapukan and anthropological constructions of knowledge
Cambridge University Press, 1987
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Bibliography: p. 168-190
Includes index
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Making History begins with a puzzle. In 1976 the inhabitants of Pukapuka, a Polynesian island in the South Pacific, revived a traditional form of social organization that several authoritative Pukapukan informants claimed to have experienced previously in their youth. Yet five professional anthropologists, who conducted research on the island prior to 1976, do not mention it in any of their writings. Had the Pukapukans 'invented' a new tradition? Or had the anthropologists collectively erred in not recording an old one? In unraveling this puzzle, Robert Borofsky compares two different ways of 'making history', two different ways of constructing knowledge about the past. He examines the dynamic nature of Pukapukan knowledge focusing on how Pukapukans, in the process of learning and validating their traditions, continually change them. He also shows how anthropologists, in the process of writing about such traditions for Western audiences, often overstructure them, emphasizing uniformity at the expense of diversity, stasis at the expense of change. As well as being of interest for what it reveals about Pukapukan (and more generally Polynesian) culture, Making History helps clarify important strengths and limitations of the anthropological approach. It provides valuable insights into both the anthropological construction of knowledge and the nature of anthropological understanding.
目次
- 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.
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