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portada culture in practice,selected essays
culture in practice,selected essaysculture in practice,selected essays
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Language
English
Pages
646
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6 x 15.0 x 4.3 cm
Weight
0.91 kg.
ISBN
0942299388
ISBN13
9780942299380
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culture in practice,selected essays

Marshall Sahlins (Author) · Zone Books · Paperback

culture in practice,selected essays - Sahlins, Marshall

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Synopsis "culture in practice,selected essays"

Culture in Practice collects both the seminal and the more obscure academic and political writings of the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins from the 1960s through the 1990s. More than a compilation, this book unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. Sahlins's reportage and reflections on the anti-war movement in 1964 and 1965 mark the intellectual development from earlier general studies of culture, economy, and human nature to the more historical and globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially Pacific Islanders. Throughout these essays, Sahlins also engages the cultural specificity of the West, developing a critical account of the distinctive ways that we act in and understand the world. Culture in Practice includes a play / review of Robert Ardrey's sociobiology, essays on "native" consumption patterns of food and clothes in America and the West, explorations of how two thousand years of Western cosmology have affected our understanding of others, and ethnohistorical accounts of how cultural orders of Europeans and Pacific Islanders structured the historical experiences of both. Throughout this range of scholarly inquiries and critical commentaries, Sahlins offers his own way of thinking about the anthropological project. To transcend our native categories in order to understand how other peoples have been able historically to construct their own modes of existence -- even now, in the era of globalization -- is the great challenge of contemporary anthropology.

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