Overview
This book addresses the history of mentalities, psychohistory, and the history of colonialist discourses. For those interested in the development of Third World and of post-colonialist cultures, the book offers a new set of insights and methodologies. 'My cow comes to haunt me,' said the bush-widow in Tasmania in the early 1830s, and the men out on the fringes of empire who listened, journalist, historian and traveller, smugly laughed at her ignorance and superstition. The colonial encounter between European and non-European takes place on and in the fringes of two or more cultures. They encounter words dialectically, playing off different forms of power and with ramifications in several directions. My Cow Comes to Haunt Me focuses on the problem of colonial discourses and especially the 'topos' of the first encounter within the algebra of history of mentalities, and does so with an optic that includes the European intrusion into the Pacific islands.
Full Product Details
Author: Norman Simms
Publisher: Pace University Press
Imprint: Pace University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780944473191
ISBN 10: 0944473199
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 28 March 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
It offers an immensely sensitive, learned, and creative analysis of extreme clashes of mentalities...In the methodologically sophisticated comparative study of mentalities, Norman Simms is second to none. -- Rudolph Binion, Brandeis University ...Simms takes the original approach...of expanding Enlightenment and humanist vision, which is the best part of Western civilization, to understand mentalities that civilization has misunderstood. -- Gerald J. Butler, San Diego State University ...Simms takes the original approach...of expanding Enlightenment and humanist vision, which is the best part of Western civilization, to understand mentalities that civilization has misunderstood. -- Gerald J. Butler, San Diego State University It offers an immensely sensitive, learned, and creative analysis of extreme clashes of mentalities...In the methodologically sophisticated comparative study of mentalities, Norman Simms is second to none. -- Rudolph Binion, Brandeis University
...Simms takes the original approach...of expanding Enlightenment and humanist vision, which is the best part of Western civilization, to understand mentalities that civilization has misunderstood.>>>>--Gerald J. Butler
