Author: Marshall Sahlins

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins”s Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropol …

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins”s Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropol …

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 deepe …

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 essays by t …

Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six …

Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six …

Die atemberaubende Schilderung eines tödlichen Missverständnisses: Wie Kapitän Cook auf Hawaii zum Gott wurde und dafür mit seinem Leben bezahlte. Ein anthropologisches Meisterstück über Glück und Tr …

One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits …

Warum und wie kann ein einzelner Mensch als Verkörperung oder Stellvertreter eines Gottes über viele gebieten? Zwei der bedeutendsten Anthropologen und Gesellschaftskritiker der Gegenwart entschlüsse …

Divertido, irreverente e provocativo. Aqui, o conceituado antropólogo Marshall Sahlins dispara contra os principais conceitos e temas da virada do século XXI: capitalismo tardio, globalização, terror …

Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publicatio …

Was, wenn wir nicht nur niemals modern gewesen sind, sondern Geisterwesen, Ahnen und Götter nach wie vor unter uns leben? Dann würde es sich bezahlt machen, von jenen zu lernen, die ihre Existenz imm …

Mit diesem kurzen Text, der in den 1970er-Jahren als erstes Kapitel eines ganzen Bandes zu den Stone Age Economics erschien und erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt, bricht Marshall Sahlins mit …

"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 …

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 schola …

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 …