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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preface / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Introduction: A practice of anthropology -- the work of Marshall Sahlins, so far / Alex Golub, Daniel Rosenblatt, and John D. Kelly -- 1. How long is a longue durée? : structure, duration, and the cultural analysis of cultural change / Joel Robbins -- 2. Monarchical visions : constructions of "kingship" in colonial Samoa / Jocelyn Linnekin -- 3. Slow time : culture, materiality, and the knowability of the Neolithic / Webb Keane -- 4. From Jew to Roman : Mr. Joske, Mr. Brewster, The hill tribes of Fiji, and the hill tribes of Fiji / Martha Kaplan -- 5. Supplement to Marshall Sahlins's Voyage around the islands of history (Tahiti 1768, Samoa 1787) / Serge Tcherkézoff -- 6. Chassé-croisé : or how Christianity appropriated indigenous appropriation of Christianity on the Rio Negro / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha -- 7. The past is old, the future is traditional : Ircenrraat, the DOT, and the inventiveness of tradition / Ann Fienup-Riordan -- 8. The Kafka connection : structure, lifeworld, and the cunning of history / Jonathan Friedman -- 9. Way-finding : respectfulness as a performance art / Greg Dening |
| Summary |
Eminent anthropologists explore the nature of culture in essays honoring a colleague and teacher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-
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Ethnology.
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Social change.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Golub, Alex, editor
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Kelly, John D., editor
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Rosenblatt, Daniel (Professor of anthropology), editor
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Sahlins, Marshall, 1930- honoree
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| ISBN |
077354688X |
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0773546898 |
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0773598626 (electronic bk.) |
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9780773546882 |
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9780773546899 |
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9780773598621 (electronic bk.) |
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