age ~94
from Piedmont, CA
In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David...
Author
Marshall Sahlins
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
120
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226925129
EAN Code
9780226925127
ISBN #
1
First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pear Press in 1993, this expanded edition of Waiting for Foucault represents some of the brightest anthropological satire—mixed in with som...
Author
Marshall Sahlins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
96
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press
ISBN #
097175750X
EAN Code
9780971757509
ISBN #
9
When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contempo...
Author
Marshall Sahlins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
328
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226733696
EAN Code
9780226733692
ISBN #
8
Stone Age Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of six influential essays is one of Marshall Sahlins' most important and enduring works, claiming that stone age economies formed the origina...
Author
Marshall Sahlins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
368
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
0415320100
EAN Code
9780415320108
ISBN #
6
Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between t...
Author
Marshall Sahlins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
200
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226733580
EAN Code
9780226733586
ISBN #
5
Thucydides' 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 ...
Author
Marshall Sahlins
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
320
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226734005
EAN Code
9780226734002
ISBN #
4
"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthr...
Author
Marshall Sahlins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
259
Publisher
The University Of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226733610
EAN Code
9780226733616
ISBN #
3
Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep i...
Author
Marshall Sahlins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
112
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press
ISBN #
0979405726
EAN Code
9780979405723
ISBN #
2
Marshall David Sahlins (born December 27, 1930, Chicago, Illinois) is a prominent American anthropologist. Contents. 1 Life; 2 Work; 3 See also; 4 Publications...
27 December 1930 • Chicago, IL
Anthropologist
Company:University of Chicago faculty
Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences • Professor
Studied at:University of Michigan • Columbia University
Area of science:Economic systems
Indigenous • Student
Activity:Comedian
Skill:Motivate people