Sobre a interpretação antropológica: Sahlins, Obeyesekere e a racionalidade havaiana

Authors

  • Cristhian Teófilo da Silva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012002000200004

Keywords:

Antropological interpretation, Hawaiian rationality, Sahlins, Obeyesekere

Abstract

This essay is an attempt to understand the anthropological presuppositions of interpretation of Hawaiian thought in the 18th century considering the reciprocal elucidation of Marshall Sahlins's and Gananath Obeyesekere's arguments about this way of thinking. It is not possible to reproduce the authors' arguments in all their ethnographical profusion and theoretical sophistication therefore it was our option to emphasize the identification of Captain Cook as the Hawaiian god Lono in order to make explicit Sahlins's and Obeyesekere's concerns regarding the validity of such a practice as a rational behavior.

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Published

2002-01-01

Issue

Vol. 45 No. 2 (2002)

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How to Cite

Silva, C. T. da. (2002). Sobre a interpretação antropológica: Sahlins, Obeyesekere e a racionalidade havaiana . Revista De Antropologia, 45(2), 403-415. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012002000200004