Sahlins, Marshall

Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume One--Historical Ethnography

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Written under the assistance of Dorothy B. Barrere, a big, tall, quarto hardcover format blue cloth over boards, still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. This is the first of two volumes devoted to the history and archaeology of Hawaii, roughly from the 1700s forward and the clash between Hawaiians and the colonizing forces of commerce and Christianity and including the Northwest America-Canton fur trade, the export of sandalwood, whaling and the like. Many, many score fine illustrations and photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix [1], 1-243 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: Marshall Sahlins Hawaii sandalwood fur trade commerce Christianity

MARSHALL SAHLINS

Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History As Culture and Vice Versa

University of Chicago Press, 2004-12-01. Hardcover. Brand new gift quality hardcover in jacket. D77 Please email for photos.. New .

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Sahlins, Marshall David

Culture in Practice : Selected Essays

New York, Zone Books, 2000. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, 646 pp.. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG.
¶ 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 with Sahlins's early general studies of culture, economy, and human nature. It then moves to his reportage and reflections on the war in Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the event that most strongly affected his thinking about cultural specificity. Finally, it offers his more historical and globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially those of the Pacific islands.Sahlins exposes the cultural specificity of the West, developing a critical account of the distinctive ways that we act in and understand the world. The book 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 affect our understanding of others, and ethnohistorical accounts of how cultural orders of Europeans and Pacific islanders structured the historical experiences of both. Throughout, Sahlins offers his own way of thinking about the anthropological project. To transcend critically our native categories in order to understand how other peoples have historically constructed their modes of existence - even now, in the era of globalisation - is the great challenge of contemporary anthropology" -

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MARSHALL SAHLINS

Culture and Practical Reason

Chicago, The University Of Chicago Press. 1978, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0226733610). Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 251pp paperback, ownership signature, private bookplate. Good.

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Sahlins, Marshall

Culture in Practice: Selected Essays

New York, Zone Books, 2000. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy in oversized trade paperback format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. From the publisher's blurb, "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 with Sahlins's early general studies of culture, economy, and human nature. It then moves to his reportage and reflections on the war in Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the event that most strongly affected his thinking about cultural specificity. Finally, it offers his more historical and globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially those of the Pacific islands. Sahlins exposes the cultural specificity of the West, developing a critical account of the distinctive ways that we act in and understand the world. The book includes a play eview 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 affect our understanding of others, and ethnohistorical accounts of how cultural orders of Europeans and Pacific islanders structured the historical experiences of both. Throughout, Sahlins offers his own way of thinking about the anthropological project. To transcend critically our native categories in order to understand how other peoples have historically constructed their modes of existence-even now, in the era of globalization-is the great challenge of contemporary anthropology. Essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 646 pp. and with black-and-white illustrations throughout.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 359291

Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: Marshall Sahlins culture practice politics cultural anthropology ethnography

Sahlins, Marshall

Culture and Practical Reason

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1976. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 252 pp writing and a sticker on the spine covers worn on the edges Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Good .

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Book number: 102741

Catalogue: Anthropology

Keywords: Sociology, Psychology

Marshall Sahlins

Culture and Practical Reason

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1976. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fascinating study, in which Sahlins discusses the connection between culture and utilitarian interest. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Previous owner's ink inscription to the front free end paper. Marshall David Sahlins (1930-2021) was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. In this anthropological work, Sahlins discusses the complex combination of forces which shape societies, and how those societies shape history. While originally it was argued that culture was made through an adaptation to the natural environment, Sahlins considers whether individuals have the agency to make history. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in lovely condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrapper remains bright and smart, with very minor shelf wear to the head of the spine of the wraps. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Fine.

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Sahlins, Marshall,

How "Natives" Think - About Captain Cook, for Example.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996. Trade Paperback., Vg in Wraps. Faint Edgewear. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 318.

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Sahlins, Marshall

How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, very short, closed tear at rear panel top edge, and short crease along top edge. Augmented with three maps. From the publisher's blurb, "When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In How "Natives" Think, Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures.In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawai'i Island in 1779. Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wise to accept the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a "non-native" scholar give voice to a "native" point of view? In his 1992 book The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Gananath Obeyesekere used this very issue to attack Sahlins's decades of scholarship on Hawaii. Accusing Sahlins of elementary mistakes of fact and logic, even of intentional distortion, Obeyesekere portrayed Sahlins as accepting a naive, enthnocentric idea of superiority of the white man over "natives"-Hawaiian and otherwise. Claiming that his own Sri Lankan heritage gave him privileged access to the Polynesian native perspective, Obeyesekere contended that Hawaiians were actually pragmatists too rational and sensible to mistake Cook for a god. Curiously then, as Sahlins shows, Obeyesekere turns eighteenth-century Hawaiians into twentieth-century modern Europeans, living up to the highest Western standards of "practical rationality." By contrast, Western scholars are turned into classic custom-bound "natives", endlessly repeating their ancestral traditions of the White man's superiority by insisting Cook was taken for a god. But this inverted ethnocentrism can only be supported, as Sahlins demonstrates, through wholesale fabrications of Hawaiian ethnography and history-not to mention Obeyesekere's sustained misrepresentations of Sahlins's own work. And in the end, although he claims to be speaking on behalf of the "natives," Obeyesekere, by substituting a home-made "rationality" for Hawaiian culture, systematically eliminates the voices of Hawaiian people from their own history. How "Natives" Think goes far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, it is a reaffirmation for understanding difference." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x, 1-318 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Very Good,

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Book number: 359273

Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: Marshall Sahlins Captan Cook insular Pacific travel exploration

SAHLINS Marshall -

Isole e storia. Società e mito nei mari del Sud.

Milano, Cortina, 2016, 8vo brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 213

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SAHLINS, MARSHALL D.

Moala, culture and nature on a Fijian island

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. 1962, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 453 pages, maps, plates and diagrams. Old name on front endpaper, wear on dust wrapper, spine of dust wrapper shows some foxing. Chapters: Moalan ecology; the family level of Moalan society & culture; the kindred; the kin group level of Moalan society & culture; the village level of Moalan society & culture; the island & the outside world. Very Good/Good.

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Catalogue: Anthropology and Archaeology

Sahlins, Marshall D.

Social Stratification in Polynesia

University of Washington Press, 1972. hardback. very good condition - no dust jacket

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Sahlins, Marshall D.

Social Stratification in Polynesia

Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic work of structural-functionalism by an acknowledge master ethnographer, this being his reworking of his 1958 Ph.D. dissertation. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket, illustrated, intact but moderately worn, short, closed tear to front panel. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiii [1], 2-306 pp., plus a list of other publications by the American Ethnographical Society.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: Marshall Sahlins Social Stratification in Polynesia ethnology ethnography insular Pacific

Sahlins,Marshall.

Storie d'altri.

Napoli, 1992, Guida Editori Coll.Saggi,41. cm.14x22,5, pp.261, brossura,cop.muta, sovraccop.f - Ottime condizioni / Excellent condition

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Book number: 30981

Catalogue: Antropologia Civiltà Etnologia

Sahlins, Marshall

Der Tod des Kapitan Cook. Geschichte als Metapher und Mythos als Wirklichkeit in der Fruhgeschichte des Konigsreichs Hawaii.

Berlin, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 1986 1 volumes. modern stiff wrappers. many ills. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Hans Medick und Michael Schmidt.. Gewicht/weight: 0 gr.

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Book number: 7906

Catalogue: Land- en volkenkunde

Keywords: geschiedenis