Marshall Sahlins
Born
in Chicago, The United States
December 27, 1930
Died
April 05, 2021
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Stone Age Economics
35 editions
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published
1974
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The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition
9 editions
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2008
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Islands of History
15 editions
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published
1985
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Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom
8 editions
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published
1981
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Waiting for Foucault, Still
7 editions
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published
2002
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How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
3 editions
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published
1995
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What Kinship Is-And Is Not
7 editions
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published
2012
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Culture and Practical Reason
9 editions
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published
1976
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The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology
4 editions
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1976
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Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa
4 editions
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2004
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“One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.”
― Stone Age Economics
― Stone Age Economics
“The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.”
― Stone Age Economics
― Stone Age Economics
“We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.”
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