Comments on: The Meaning of Whitemen http://savageminds.org/2007/05/09/the-meaning-of-whitemen/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Feelings and education « Dead Voles http://savageminds.org/2007/05/09/the-meaning-of-whitemen/comment-page-1/#comment-628689 Feelings and education « Dead Voles Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:29:54 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/05/09/the-meaning-of-whitemen/#comment-628689 [...] The Meaning of Whitemen, which I’m using as I often do as an excuse to read it, based on Rex at Savage Minds’ recommendation. It’s really a terrific book about race, modernity and Papua New Guinea, for a lot of [...] [...] The Meaning of Whitemen, which I’m using as I often do as an excuse to read it, based on Rex at Savage Minds’ recommendation. It’s really a terrific book about race, modernity and Papua New Guinea, for a lot of [...]

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2007/05/09/the-meaning-of-whitemen/comment-page-1/#comment-81538 Rex Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:40:29 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/05/09/the-meaning-of-whitemen/#comment-81538 Strong -- I understand your concern, but don\'t worry -- you\'ll enjoy the book even if you\'re not Jewish. -R Strong –

I understand your concern, but don\’t worry — you\’ll enjoy the book even if you\’re not Jewish.

-R

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]]> By: Strong http://savageminds.org/2007/05/09/the-meaning-of-whitemen/comment-page-1/#comment-81521 Strong Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:46:22 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/05/09/the-meaning-of-whitemen/#comment-81521 Yes. But did the following endorsement of the book disturb you as much as it did me? "We are one of the others. Deconstructing the ancient sociology of in-group versus out-group, this finely observed and brilliantly interpreted ethnography of a New Guinea people's conceptions of whitemen fashions a powerful new paradigm for the study of intercultural relations. Incidentally, damn good reading."—Marshall Sahlins In the context of a book about whiteness, does Sahlins's "we" reproduce a, um, worrying slippage? Yes. But did the following endorsement of the book disturb you as much as it did me?

“We are one of the others. Deconstructing the ancient sociology of in-group versus out-group, this finely observed and brilliantly interpreted ethnography of a New Guinea people’s conceptions of whitemen fashions a powerful new paradigm for the study of intercultural relations. Incidentally, damn good reading.”—Marshall Sahlins

In the context of a book about whiteness, does Sahlins’s “we” reproduce a, um, worrying slippage?

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