A Practice of Anthropology: The Thought and Influence of Marshall Sahlins

by Daniel Rosenblatt, John D. Kelly, Alex Golub

Marshall Sahlins (b. 1930) is an American anthropologist who played a major role in the development of anthropological theory in the second half of the twentieth century. Over a sixty-year career, he and his colleagues synthesized trends in evolutionary, Marxist, and ecological anthropology, moving them into mainstream thought. Sahlins is considered a critic of reductive theories of human nature, an exponent of culture as a key concept in anthropology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773546898
• ISBN13: 9780773546899
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"