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1	Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom more books like this by Marshall David Sahlins add to wishlist Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation see all copies from $5.28! new only from $16.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Culture and practical reason more books like this by Marshall David Sahlins add to wishlist "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 statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter ... see all copies from $6.77! new only from $21.57!
3	Stone age economics more books like this by Marshall D Sahlins add to wishlist Stoneage Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of six influential essays is one of Marshall Sahlins' most influential and enduring works, claiming that stone age economies formed the original affluent society. The book examines notions of ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $31.49! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Culture in Practice: Selected Essays more books like this by Marshall David Sahlins add to wishlist Essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field. Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens ... see all copies from $10.01! new only from $18.85! \| SVS
5	Islands of history more books like this by Marshall Sahlins add to wishlist 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 false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's ... see all copies from $7.52! new only from $16.75! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa more books like this by Marshall David Sahlins add to wishlist Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history--including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking new book that shows what a difference an ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $23.34! \| SVS
7	Waiting for Foucault, Still more books like this by Marshall David Sahlins add to wishlist First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pears Press in 1993, this expanded edition of "Waiting for Foucault" represents some of the brightest anthropological satire - mixed in with some of the most serious intellectual issues in ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $12.94! \| SVS
8	Moala; culture and nature on a Fijian island. more books like this by Marshall David Sahlins add to wishlist see all copies from $14.50! first editions
9	The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology more books like this by Marshall David Sahlins add to wishlist A criticism of sociobiology by one of the world's foremost anthropologists see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50!

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