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Marshall Sahlins 1930 -   United States

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indigenous cultures are distinct and equal to those of the West.

Reading

• Social Stratification in Polynesia
• Moala: Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island
• Evolution and Culture
• Stone Age Economics
• Tribesmen
• The Use and Abuse of Biology
• Culture and Practical Reason
• Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
• Waiting For Foucault
• Islands of History
• Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii
• How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example
• Culture in Practice
• Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa

Writing Available on the Internet

extract The Original Affluent Society http://www.eco-action.org/dt/affluent.html

 Commentary

MARSHALL SAHLINS & DEBATES ABOUT POLYNESIAN CULTURE

Dening, Greg. 1996. "Sharks that walk on the land". Performances. Parkville, Melbourne University Press. Pp. 64-78.

Ernst, Thomas M. 1993. "A comment". Social Analysis. Journal of Social & Cultural Practice 34: 66-69. Part of a "Review Symposium on The apotheosis of Captain Cook. European mythmaking in the Pacific, pp. 33-85.

Knauft, Bruce M. 1993. "Monument of miscast error: Obeyesekere versus Sahlins and Captain Cook". Social Analysis. Journal of Social & Cultural Practice 34: 34-42. Part of a "Review Symposium on The apotheosis of Captain Cook. European mythmaking in the Pacific, pp. 33-85.

Lamb, Jonathan. 1993. "Social facts, political fictions and un-relative events: Obeyesekere on Sahlins". Social Analysis. Journal of Social & Cultural Practice 34: 56-60. Part of a "Review Symposium on The apotheosis of Captain Cook. European mythmaking in the Pacific, pp. 33-85.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1992. The apotheosis of Captain Cook: European mythmaking in the Pacific. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1993. "Anthropology and the cook myth: A reply to critics". Social Analysis. Journal of Social & Cultural Practice 34: 70-87. Part of a "Review Symposium on The apotheosis of Captain Cook. European mythmaking in the Pacific, pp. 33-85.

Pollock, Donald. 1996. "Review of How 'natives' think about Captain Cook, for example". American Anthropologist 98: 683-84.

Rose, Debbie Bird. 1993. "Worshipping Captain Cook". Social Analysis. Journal of Social & Cultural Practice 34: 43-49. Part of a "Review Symposium on The apotheosis of Captain Cook. European mythmaking in the Pacific, pp. 33-85.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1981. Historical metaphors and mythical realities. Struture in the early history of the Sandwick Islands Kingdon. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1985. Islands of History. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1988a. "Deserted islands of history". Critique of Anthropology 8 (Nº 3, Winter): 41-51.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1988b. "Cosmologies of capitalism: The trans-Pacific sector of 'The World System'. Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology. Proceedings of the British Academy 74: 1-51.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1992. "The economics of develop-man in the Pacific". Res 21: 12-25.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1993. "Goodbye to tristes tropes: Ethnography in the context of modern world history". The Journal of Modern History 65: 1-25.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1995. How 'natives' think about Captain Cook, for example. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Salmond, Anne. 1993. "Whose God, or Not?". Social Analysis. Journal of Social & Cultural Practice 34: 50-55. Part of a "Review Symposium on The apotheosis of Captain Cook. European mythmaking in the Pacific, pp. 33-85.

Smith, Bernard. 1993. "A comment". Social Analysis. Journal of Social & Cultural Practice 34: 61-65. Part of a "Review Symposium on The apotheosis of Captain Cook. European mythmaking in the Pacific, pp. 33-85.

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