"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology
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Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. The author of numerous books, Sahlins is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The question that first inspired this book was whether the materialist conception of history and culture, as Marx formulated it theoretically, could be transferred without friction to the comprehension of tribal societies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Karl Marx: Man and Fighter (Pelican) by Boris Nicolaievsky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Primitive Classification by Emile Durkheim on page 111, and Back Matter
- The Philosophy Of Misery by Joseph-Pierre Proudhon on page 138
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South by Walker Evans on page 190
- The Philosophy of the Enlightenment by Ernst Cassirer on page 16
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- Culture: The Anthropologists' Account by Adam Kuper on 6 pages
- Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice by Catherine Bell on 4 pages
- An Investigation of the Theory of the Commodity and Its Application to Critical Media Studies by Jeffrey R. Young on page 7, page 22, and Back Matter
- Heterology and the Postmodern: Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Julian Pefanis on page 51, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Economy of Icons: How Business Manufactures Meaning by Ernest Sternberg in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Index
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