Re: historical anthropology

Gil Hardwick (gil@landmark.iinet.net.au)
Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:43:31 GMT


In article <3mresd$j50@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>, Jens Kjaerulff (jkjaerul@acs.ucalgary.ca) writes:
>One of my favourite books that touches on the subject is Bruce
>Kapferer's "legends of People - Myths of State" (1988), which is
>a comparative inquiry about Sri Lankan and Australian
>nationalism. Its a brilliant book. More widely known books that
>reflects this understanding of history and anthropology include
>several works by Marshall Sahlins (Islands of History 1985), and
>James Boon's "Other Tribes, Other Scribes" (1982) is also of interest.

You can stay too, Jens.

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