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Title:
Culture in practice : selected essays
Author:
Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-
ISBN:
9780942299373

9780942299380
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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).
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