Overview :In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarsh... Read More
Overview :Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthro... Read More
Overview :In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarsh... Read More
Overview :Essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field.Culture in Practice collects th... Read More
Overview :In recent years, Confucius Institutes have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred ac... Read More
Overview :Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he ... Read More
Overview :First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first ... Read More
Overview :"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but t... Read More
Overview :For nearly a year Marshall D. Sahlins lived in villages on the Fijian island of Moala, learning the "way of the land," as the Moalans call t... Read More
Overview :Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history--including the idea that West... Read More
Overview :One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures F... Read More
Overview :When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever arti... Read More
Overview :Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation... Read More
Overview :Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing Western Civ to ... Read More