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The New Science of the Enchanted Universe

Marshall Sahlins

From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being…

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Culture in Practice: Selected Essays

Marshall Sahlins

A collection of essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field.

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The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity

Marshall Sahlins

From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being…

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Islands of History (Paper Only)

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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…

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Waiting for Foucault, Still

Marshall Sahlins

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…

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The Western Illusion of Human Nature

Marshall Sahlins

Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, this book aims to accelerate the trend by reducing Western Civ to about two hours. It cites Nietzsche to the effect…

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Confucius Institutes - Academic Malware

Marshall Sahlins

Drawing on reports in the media and conversations, the author shows that the Confucius Institutes are a threat to the principles of academic freedom and integrity at the foundation of…

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What the Foucault? 6e

Marshall Sahlins

This is the long-awaited fifth edition of Marshall Sahlins’ classic series of bon mots, ruminations, and musings on the ancients, anthropology, and much else in between.

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Apologies to Thucydides

Marshall Sahlins

Presents Thucydides’ classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War that is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides’ historiography was universally…

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What Kinship Is-And Is Not

Marshall Sahlins

Offers, on its surface, a simple theoretical argument, laid out in the titles of its mere two chapters: kinship is culture, not biology. But along the way to proving his…

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Culture and Practical Reason

Marshall Sahlins

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…

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How Natives Think: About Captain Cook, for Example

Marshall Sahlins

This volume seeks to go far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins’s ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, is a reaffirmation for understanding difference.

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What Kinship Is-And Is Not

Marshall Sahlins

In this pithy two-part essay, the author reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on…

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Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom

Marshall D. Sahlins

Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins’s structuralist methodology of historical interpretation

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Stone Age Economics

Marshall David Sahlins

Originally published: Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1972.

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Stone Age Economics

Marshall Sahlins,David Graeber

A classic study of anthropological economics, which tackles the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively.

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Stone Age Economics

Marshall Sahlins,David Graeber

A classic study of anthropological economics, which tackles the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively.

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On Kings

David Graeber,Marshall Sahlins,David Graeber

In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of…

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The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology

Marshall D. Sahlins

A criticism of sociobiology by one of the world’s foremost anthropologists

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Moala: Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island

Marshall D. Sahlins

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 their customs. From…

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Anahulu: Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Patrick Vinton Kirch,Marshall Sahlins

From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets criss-crossed the islands. Reflecting many…

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Anahulu: Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Patrick Vinton Kirch,Marshall Sahlins

From the late 1700’s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routs and markets criss-crossed the islands. Reflecting many…

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Beyond Nature and Culture

Philippe Descola

Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, the author formulates a sophisticated new framework, the four ontologies - animism…

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Beyond Nature and Culture

Philippe Descola

Deals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a…

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