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	Marshall Sahlins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marshall Sahlins (born 1930) is a prominent American anthropologist.
		In the late 1990s Sahlins became embroiled in a heated debate with Gananath Obeyesekere over the details of Captain James Cook's death in the Hawaiian Islands in 1779.
		Sahlins, on the other hand, was critical of Western thought and argued that indigenous cultures were distinct and equal to those of the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshall_Sahlins (552 words)

	Marshall Sahlins
		Marshall Sahlins is one of the most prominent American anthropologists of our time.
		Sahlins grew up in Chicago and did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan, and his graduate work both there and also at Columbia University.
		Sahlins is also well-known for his work with the peoples of Hawaii, and he continues his work on Native peoples and culture to this day, giving many lectures to students and faculty across the U.S. and in Europe and Asia.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/sahlins_marshall.html (469 words)

	Marshall Sahlins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Marshall Sahlins (born 1930) is a prominent (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American anthropologist.
		In the late 1960s he also spent two years in Paris, where he was exposed to French intellectual life (and particularly the work of (French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908)) Claude Lévi-Strauss) and the student protests of May '68.
		In the late 1990s Sahlins became embroiled in a heated debate with Gananath Obeyesekere over the details of (additional info and facts about Captain James Cook's) Captain James Cook's death in the (A group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific) Hawaiian_Islands in 1779.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/marshall_sahlins.htm (438 words)

	Sahlins
		That legacy, that Sahlin defends, survives today to erase modern misconceptions that the livelihood of a hunter-gatherer is "nasty, brutish, and short".
		Sahlins focuses on the fact that hunter-gatherers are prosperous under their mode of living, whereas modern society seems to be at odds with the mode of living that is aspired to.
		In Sahlins point of view, it was not the priority of hunter-gatherers to exploit every resource to their accumulative ends.
	utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/biography/arybios98/saxtonbio.html (1129 words)

	Honorary Fellows: Marshall Sahlins
		Sahlins gave the first distinguished lecture at an ASAO meeting in Clearwater, Florida in 1979, which resulted in the first ASAO Special Publication, Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities (1981), a book that has generated lively debate about the nature of thought.
		In addition to works specifically on Pacific topics, Sahlins’ contributions to anthropological theory, both in his early incarnation as a evolutionary materialist and in his later incarnation as a symbolic anthropologist, have done much to shape modern anthropology.
		Marshall Sahlins is currently the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
	www.soc.hawaii.edu /asao/pacific/honoraryf/sahlins.htm (295 words)

	SRB Archives 4(3)
		Sahlin's theories are well known: the Hawaiians (mis)took Cook for their god Lono, the deity of agriculture and peace.
		Sahlins' explanation rests on such a tenuous assemblage of suspect data, overinterpretation, and improbable coincidence, that it is hard to see it as anything but a creaky monster kept alive only by the masterly wit of its creator.
		All of the encounters Sahlins cites as proofs of a reverent or ritual attitude toward Cook Obeyesekere explains as Cook's participation in ritual as a celebrant not a god, or as the general ritual attitude displayed by commoners toward chiefs.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/voice.html (1746 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Marshall David Sahlins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sahlins, M.D. The sadness of sweetness: The native anthropology of western cosmology.
		Sahlins, M.D. The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology.
		Sahlins, M.D. Culture and environment: The study of cultural ecology.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/S/SahlinsMD.html (95 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2004008115 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history.
		Sahlins begins by confronting Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War with an analogous "Polynesian War," the fight for the domination of the Fiji Islands (1843-55) between a great sea power (like Athens) and a great land power (like Sparta).
		Sahlins draws parallels between the conflicts with an eye to their respective systems of power and sovereignty as well as to Thucydides' alternation between individual (Pericles, Themistocles) and collective (the Athenians, the Spartans) actors in the making of history.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/uchi052/2004008115.html (319 words)

	Marshall Sahlins to lecture Nov. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will give a lecture on campus titled "Sentimental Pessimism and Ethnographic Experience: Why Culture is Not a Disappearing Object" on Friday, Nov. 1, at 4:30 p.m.
		One of America's premier anthropologists, Sahlins first rose to prominence as an ethnographer and historian of Polynesia.
		Sahlins conducted his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan and his graduate work there and at Columbia University.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/10.24.96/Sahlins.html (383 words)

	The University of Chicago Divinity School
		Sahlins is presently doing research focused on the intersection of culture and history, especially as those play out in early-modern Pacific societies.
		He recently published a book of his anthropological and political essays ranging from the ‘60s through the ‘90s, and is working on two others: a set of studies in history and historiography and a multi-volume work on the Polynesian War, a history of the great Fijian War, 1843-1855.
		Sahlins’ Nuveen Lecture is "The Making of National History by Family Melodrama: The Iconization of Elian Gonzalez," which he will deliver on Thursday, October 17, at 4:00 p.m.
	divinity.uchicago.edu /news/autumn_2002/marshall_sahlins.shtml (166 words)

	The University of Chicago Martin Marty Center
		RESPONSE TO "The Iconization of Elián Gonzalez," by Marshall Sahlins
		It is these photos, Sahlins tells us, sighting a variety of journalistic sources, that proved "embarrassing" to "an important fraction of the American middle class" in "the extravagant consumerism of it all." If this is indeed true, then understanding the nuances of this "embarrassment" might be the most essential sociological residue of the Elián affair.
		Here, as Sahlins notes, the Cuban government and the Miami Cuban-Americans proved each other's best propagandists, each using the other's pronouncements to feed the frenzy of the local constituency throughout the Elián affair.
	marty-center.uchicago.edu /webforum/072003/response_mcgrath.shtml (1343 words)

	Rationality and Culture Difference
		At the outset, Sahlins states that a book devoted merely to disproving Obeyesekere would be "picayune," and then proceeds largely to illustrate the truth of that proposition (Sahlins1995:14).
		Sahlins (1976) has himself presented a much richer vision of rationality and culture in Western bourgeois societies.
		A student of Marshall Sahlins and the University of Chicago, Bradd Shore, has written a book that may well provide the beginnings of such a synthesis.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/rationality.html (3603 words)

	American Studies International: Marshall Sahlins, Culture in Practice: Selected Essays.(Book Review)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Marshall Sahlins, Culture in Practice: Selected Essays.(Book Review)
		Marshall Sahlins is widely renowned as "one of the most profound and original anthropologists of our time" (C. Levi-Strauss), capable of linking American and European intellectual traditions.
		He belongs to a generation of leading anthropologists that in the last decades put into discussion former understandings and conceptualizations of cultural forms.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:110809276&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (212 words)

	Sahlins, Marshall: How "Natives" Think
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12803.ctl (410 words)

	Pinsky and Sahlins deliver addresses at commencements
		Robert Pinsky, former U.S. poet laureate and professor of English at Boston University, and Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, gave commencement addresses at the end of April at graduation ceremonies and received honorary degrees from the University.
		While a faculty member in 1957–74, Sahlins was credited with proposing the country’s first teach-in, which was held in 1965 at the University to protest the U.S. government’s increasing involvement in the Vietnam War.
		Sahlins’ work with Hawaiian peoples and his theories about the history of European contact in Polynesia have garnered much attention in anthropology.
	www.umich.edu /~urecord/0001/May07_01/3.htm (842 words)

	Captain Cook
		The Makahiki ritual, explains Sahlins, reenacts historical battles between these Lono-kings and kings embodying a rival god-and, at another level, mythic battles between gods and men.
		Instead, says Sahlins, "he evoked the anger of some two or three thousand people" and was stabbed, beaten, and killed.
		Sahlins counters that interpreting cultures through such universals erases what is unique to each group.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /gmklass/foi/readings/captcook.htm (911 words)

	Marshall Sahlins Article, MarshallSahlins Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He received both a Bachelors and Masters degree at the University of Michigan where he studied with Leslie White, and earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1954 where his main intellectualinfluences included Karl Polanyi and Julian Steward.
		In the late 1990s Sahlins became embroiled in a heated debate with Ganath Obesekere over the detailsof Captain James Cook's death in the Hawaiian_Islands in 1779.
		Sahlins, on the other hand, wascritical of Western thought and argued that indigenous cultures were distinct and equal to those of the West.
	www.anoca.org /culture/he/marshall_sahlins.html (420 words)

	Alibris: Marshall Sahlins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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...
		Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Marshall_Sahlins (722 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / The material versus the symbolic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Marshall Sahlins, one of the most eminent contemporary anthropologists, has written extensively about the South Pacific.
		Some years ago he remarked to a classicist colleague that he was ''working on a war in the Fiji Islands that much resembled the Peloponnesian War," the fateful struggle between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC.
		Sahlins wants to make a place in historical explanation for ideas and passions as well as hunger, fear, and greed.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/04/03/the_material_versus_the_symbolic (436 words)

	Review Marshall Sahlins - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As a graduate student in history, I was intrigued by Sahlins subject.
		In this book, Marshall Sahlins de-constructs the interpretation of human societies done by certain of the most eminents sociobiologists.
		If change is possible, the only route is one yet unexplored and Sahlins suggests a path; questioning the very content and mode of our communication.
	computertoaster.com /reviews/authorsearch_Marshall%20Sahlins/mode_books (396 words)

	Laing Prize to Sahlins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Anthropology and a world-renowned ethnographer and historian of Polynesia, has received the 1998 Gordon J. Laing Prize awarded by the University of Chicago Press.
		Sahlins is the first person to twice receive the Laing Prize, which has been awarded annually since 1963 to the University faculty author, editor or translator of a book published by the Press in the previous three years that brings the Press the greatest distinction.
		The culmination of Sahlins' ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, How "Natives" Think argues that Hawaiians who killed Captain Cook understood him as a manifestation of their god Lono, and Cook's involvement in associated rituals led to his death.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /980430/laing.shtml (354 words)

	Read about Marshall Sahlins at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Marshall Sahlins and learn about Marshall Sahlins ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		Although his focus has been the entire Pacific, Sahlins has done most of his research in Fiji and
		In the late 1990s Sahlins became embroiled in a heated debate with
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Marshall_Sahlins (395 words)

	Anthropology at UC Berkeley
		Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a leading archaeologist of Oceania, Anahulu seeks out the traces of this cultural transformation in a typical local center of the kingdom founded by Kamehameha: the Anahulu river valley of northwestern Oahu.
		In this first of two volumes, Sahlins shows the surprising consequences of Hawaii's encounter with the colonizing forces of commerce and Christianity--the distinctive ways the Hawaiian people culturally organized the experience--at various levels, from the structure of the kingdom to the daily life of ordinary people.
		At no time, Sahlins demonstrates, was the Hawaiian response a simple reflex of the forces or forms of capitalism.
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/anth/books.html (2599 words)

	Marshall Sahlins - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Marshall Sahlins - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Marshall_Sahlins (473 words)

	Sahlins, colleagues rescue pamphlet press, revive it as Prickly Paradigm Press
		Sahlins has no previous experience in publishing, but he said he decided 18 months ago to enter the business because of his belief in the pamphlet.
		Sahlins had discovered this decline two years ago, when he wanted to publish “Apologies to Thucydides,” an argument that examined the problem of why historians sometimes narrate history in terms of human actors, such as Napoleon or Pericles, and sometimes as though the actors were collective entitites like Athens or England.
		It was then that Sahlins put together a team of investors, which included his brother, Second City founder Bernie Sahlins, and the Seminary Co-Op bookstore, and they took over the faltering publisher by agreement.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /021010/pricklypress.shtml (737 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - How Natives Think: About Captain Cook, for Example - Marshall D. Sahlins - Hardcover
		Accusing Sahlins of elementary mistakes of fact and logic, even of intentional distortion, Obeyesekere portrayed Sahlins as accepting a naive, ethnocentric idea of superiority of the white man over "natives" - Hawaiian and otherwise.
		Curiously then, as Sahlins shows, Obeyesekere turns eighteenth-century Hawaiians into 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 Hawaiian god.
		It provides a sustained theoretical exegesis that will be admired, if not necessarily subscribed to, by all who are engaged in the comparative study of societies, and it may in time prove to be the crowning achievement of one of contemporary anthropology's greatest thinkers and most perspicacious scholars.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=BQv18c9ySO&isbn=0226733688&itm=26 (547 words)

	Escapable Logic
		From Europe a week ago, Flemming wrote on the subject of "Original Affluence." Quoting Marshall Sahlins, who, in The Original Affluent Society, described what Ming calls "gift economies and how pre-historic economic systems weren't as miserable as they're commonly believed to be".
		Interesting that 20% of a 12 hour day is close to the 3 hours that hunter-gatherers like to put in.
		Of course that cornucopia won't deliver us to the Zen state that Flemming and Marshall Sahlins and I admire but have not achieved (well, one of us hasn't).
	www.blaserco.com /blogs/2003/04/08.html (1017 words)

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