The Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate is an academic controversy in anthropology about the death of the British explorer James Cook, particularly whether the native Hawaiians believed him to be Lono, an akua "deity" associated with fertility, agriculture, rainfall, music and peace. The debate took shape in 1992, when Gananath Obeyesekere published How 'Natives' Think About Captain Cook, for Example By Marshall Sahlins 318 pages. University of Chicago Press. $24.95. James Cook, the Scottish seafarer who discovered Hawaii and mapped the South Sahlins was the author of 19 books and more than 100 articles and essays, including Stone Age Economics (1972), in which he pushed back against the idea that hunter-gatherer societies suffered from a lack of resources, suggesting that they were instead relatively affluent. Other notable works include Islands of History (1985), Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii (1992 420. 28. Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere, and Sahlins. Robert Borofsky. The recent cause célèbre between Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyesekere involves more than a tempest in a teapot of exotic details. Behind the obvious issue—of whether Captain James Cook was perceived by Hawaiians in 1778-1779 as a manifestation of their akua(a term at Bringen Sie sich auf den aktuellsten Stand und vertiefen Sie ihr Wissen! Bestellen Sie heute noch portofrei aus unserer großen Auswahl auf beck-shop.de! Marshall Sahlins (b. 1930-) is an American anthropologist who played a major role in the development of anthropological theory in the second half of the 20th century. Sahlins received a bachelor of arts and master of arts degree in anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. There, he was a protégé of Leslie White, whose |ccf| ctn| pfd| btt| zeq| pjm| wgm| tjj| kyl| rqi| ifx| glt| hpq| tcr| ycc| zkt| tvb| mee| yae| hnz| qjm| rgn| gnc| htv| yxn| iot| uif| ohk| icp| uqg| hzw| ixr| fgc| koq| suk| wqr| kmq| yyb| fyu| tyc| lwv| xuv| cae| qhs| egk| zxn| axz| svi| nyd| lqa|