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Culture in Practice - Collected Essays (Paperback, New edition)
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Culture in Practice - Collected Essays (Paperback, New edition)
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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 globalization-is the great challenge of
contemporary anthropology.
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