中研院民族所

Sahlins, Obeyesekere, Cook： What anthropology’s most famous debate can tell us about anthropology’s past and future

Alex Golub（龔雁達）（夏威夷大學馬諾亞分校人類學系副教授）

2025年3月17日（一）上午10點至12點

中央研究院民族學研究所新館三樓第三會議室

Marshall Sahlins is known as one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century. In the early 1990s he found himself under attack when the anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere wrote an entire book dedicating to criticising Sahlins’s work on the history of Hawai‘i. The result was the “Sahlins-Obeyesekere Debate”, a conflict which quickly transformed from a scholarly confrontation about the minutiae Hawaiian history and turned into a debate about postcolonialism, objectivity, and the politics of studying the other. This talk will look back at the Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate and assess its place in anthropological history. We will also examine how anthropology today could profit from some of the lessons learned during this famous debate.

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許慈芳，02-2652-3324，alison1122@gate.sinica.edu.tw