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Title A practice of anthropology : thought and influence of Marshall Sahlins / edited by Alex Golub, Daniel Rosenblatt, John D. Kelly
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations
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, 1930-2021
SUBJECT Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-2021 fast
Sahlins, Marshall 1930-2021 gnd
Subject Ethnology.
Social change.
Social Change
Ethnology
Anthropology, Cultural
social anthropology.
ethnology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Ethnology
Social change
Ethnologie
Theorie
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenblatt, Daniel, editor
Kelly, John D, editor
Golub, Alex, editor
Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-2021, honouree
ISBN 9780773598621
0773598626
9780773598638
0773598634
9780773546899
0773546898
9780773546882
077354688X