Culture in Practice: Selected Essays

by Marshall Sahlins

Book Overview

Culture in Practice collects both the seminal and the more obscure academic and political writings of the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins from the 1960s through the 1990s. More than a compilation, this book unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. Sahlins's reportage and reflections on the anti-war movement in 1964 and 1965 mark the intellectual development from earlier general studies of culture, economy, and human nature to the more historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094229937X
• ISBN13: 9780942299373
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher