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33 produkter
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
Häftad, 2008
117 kr
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Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep …
New Science of the Enchanted Universe
An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
Häftad, 2023
192 kr
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One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no …
Stone Age Economics
Häftad, 1972
776 kr
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Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six studies which reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and …
Apologies to Thucydides
Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa
Häftad, 2013
262 kr
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Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid, applicable to all societies at all times. Here, however, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides' …
Culture and Practical Reason
E-bok, 2013
625 kr
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"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 …
Islands of History
E-bok, 2013
625 kr
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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 …
What Kinship Is-And Is Not
Häftad, 2014
178 kr
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What Kinship Is-And Is Not offers, on its surface, a simple theoretical argument, laid out in the titles of its mere two chapters: kinship is culture, not biology. But along the way to proving his point, Marshall Sahlins engages a dazzling array of thinkers, from Aristotle to Emile Durkheim to …
Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 1
Historical Ethnography
Av Patrick Vinton Kirch, Marshall Sahlins
Häftad, 1994
872 kr
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From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets criss-crossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a …
Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 2
The Archaeology of History
Av Patrick Vinton Kirch, Marshall Sahlins
Häftad, 1994
967 kr
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From the late 1700's, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routs and markets criss-crossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a …
How "Natives" Think
About Captain Cook, For Example
Häftad, 1996
376 kr
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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 debated in this text. Marshall Sahlins …
How "e;Natives"e; Think
About Captain Cook, For Example
E-bok, 1996
796 kr
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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 …
What Kinship Is-And Is Not
Inbunden, 2013
853 kr
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In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Levy-Bruhl to Emile Durkheim and David …
New Science of the Enchanted Universe
An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
Inbunden, 2022
350 kr
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One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no …
New Science of the Enchanted Universe
An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
E-bok, 2022
265 kr
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One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no …
On Kings
Av David Graeber, Marshall Sahlins
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
305 kr
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In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores …
What the Foucault? 6e
Häftad, 2018
121 kr
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This is the long-awaited fifth edition of Marshall Sahlins' classic series of bon mots, ruminations, and musings on the ancients, anthropology, and much else in between. It's been twenty-five years since Sahlins first devised some after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association …
Stone Age Economics
E-bok, 2020
883 kr
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Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six studies which reflect the author''s ideas on revising traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and …
Stone Age Economics
E-bok, 2020
883 kr
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Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six studies which reflect the author''s ideas on revising traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and …
Stone Age Economics
Inbunden, 2017
1002 kr
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Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, …
Stone Age Economics
Häftad, 2017
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292 kr
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Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, …
Stone Age Economics
E-bok, 2017
339 kr
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Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, …
Stone Age Economics
E-bok, 2017
347 kr
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Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, …
Neue Wissenschaft des verwunschenen Universums
Eine Anthropologie fast der gesamten Menschheit
E-bok, 2023
238 kr
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Was, wenn wir nicht nur niemals modern gewesen sind, sondern Geisterwesen, Ahnen und Götter nach wie vor unter uns leben? Dann würde es sich bezahlt machen, von jenen zu lernen, die ihre Existenz immer schon anerkannt haben: immanentistische Gesellschaften. Mit diesem Begriff bezeichnet Marshall …
Die ursprüngliche Wohlstandsgesellschaft
Av Marshall Sahlins, Andreas Gehrlach
E-bok, 2024
137 kr
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Mit diesem kurzen Text, der in den 1970er-Jahren als erstes Kapitel eines ganzen Bandes zu den Stone Age Economics erschien und erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt, bricht Marshall Sahlins mit dem vorherrschenden ökonomischen Paradigma, dass mehr Arbeit auch mehr Wohlstand bringt. Denn bis …
Der Tod des Kapitän Cook
Geschichte als Metapher und Mythos als Wirklichkeit
E-bok, 2021
162 kr
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Als Kapitän Cook mit seiner Crew am 17. Januar 1779 auf der Suche nach der Nordwestpassage in Hawaii anlangt, wird er von den Inselbewohnern frenetisch empfangen. Zu dieser Zeit feiern die Einheimischen die turnusmäßige Ankunft und Herrschaftsübernahme des Friedensgottes Lono, der nun in Gestalt …
Über Könige
Versuche einer Archäologie der Souveränität
Av David Graeber, Marshall Sahlins
E-bok, 2022
236 kr
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Königtümer gelten als überkommene, allenfalls noch folkloristisch und touristisch bedeutsame Regierungsformen. Doch die Bindungs- und Herrschaftskraft von Königen sind immer noch erstaunlich, was sich besonders in Krisenzeiten erweist.Diese Essays von David Graeber und seinem akademischen Lehrer …
