Friday, March 2, 2012

Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa


DIVThucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history?€”including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history.BRBRSahlins begins by confronting Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War with an analogous Polynesian War, the fight for the domination of the Fiji Islands (1
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