Apologies to Thucydides: understanding history as culture and vice versa

By:

Sahlins, Marshall

Publication details: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Chicago:Description: xii, 334 p. ill. maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780226103822

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

996.11 SAH

Summary: Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the conceit that Western historiography is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the conceit that Western historiography is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history

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