剧情简介:Drawing on his work on contemporary postcolonial Pacific societies, Nicholas Thomas takes up three issues central to anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions (such as the gift and the commodity), and the significance of material objects in social life. Along the way, he raises doubts about any s...(展开全部)
作者:Nicholas Thomas
出版社:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674257313