Culture in practice : selected essays
by
 
Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-

Title
Culture in practice : selected essays

Author
Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-

ISBN
9780942299373
 
9780942299380

Personal Author
Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-

Publication Information
New York : Zone Books, 2000.

Physical Description
646 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents
Culture. African nemesis: an off-Broadway review (1964) ; Poor man, rich man, chief: political types in Melanesia and Polynesia (1963) ; The original affluent society (1972) ; Colors and cultures (1976) ; La Pensée bourgeoise: western society as culture (1976) -- Practice. The future of the national teach-in: a history (1965) ; The peace offensive and the Ky regime (1966) ; The destruction of conscience in Vietnam (1966) ; The established order: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate -- Culture in practice. Individual experience and cultural order (1982) ; The return of the event, again (1991) ; The discovery of the true savage (1994) ; Cosmologies of capitalism: the trans-Pacific sector of "The world system" (1988) ; Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: ethnography in the context of modern world history (1993) ; What is anthropological enlightenment? Some lessons of the twentieth century (1999) ; The sadness of sweetness; or, The native anthropology of western cosmology (1996).

Subject Term
Culture.
 
Civilization.
 
Sociology.
 
Civilisation.
 
Sociologie.
 
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
 
Culture. (OCoLC)fst00885059
 
Sociology. (OCoLC)fst01123875
 
Cultuur.
 
Culturele antropologie.
 
Cultura.


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