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A practice of anthropology : thought and influence of Marshall Sahlins / edited by Alex Golub, Daniel Rosenblatt, John D. Kelly.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773598621
  • 0773598626
  • 9780773598638
  • 0773598634
  • 9780773546899
  • 0773546898
  • 9780773546882
  • 077354688X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Practice of anthropology.:DDC classification:
  • 306 23
LOC classification:
  • GN320 .P73 2016eb
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll13
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Eminent anthropologists explore the nature of culture in essays honoring a colleague and teacher.

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