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Marshall Sahlins
Born
in Chicago, The United States
December 27, 1930
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Stone Age Economics
— published 1974 — 28 editions |
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Islands of History
— published 1985 — 14 editions |
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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
— published 2008 — 8 editions |
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Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom
— published 1981 — 5 editions |
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Waiting for Foucault, Still
— published 2002 — 5 editions |
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How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
— published 1995 — 2 editions |
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Culture and Practical Reason
— published 1976 — 9 editions |
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What Kinship Is-And Is Not
— published 2012 — 6 editions |
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The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology
— published 1976 — 4 editions |
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Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa
— published 2004 — 2 editions |
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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.”
― Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics
― Marshall Sahlins, 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.”
― Marshall Sahlins
― Marshall Sahlins
“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.”
― Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics
― Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics
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| Weekly Short Stor...: Chat (Cookies and tea allowed in this room) | 2736 | 379 | Jun 06, 2018 08:51PM |
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