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Marshall Sahlins

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Areas of Specialization: Economic Anthropology, Historical Anthropology
Marshall Sahlins was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Sahlins earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Note: Since the publication of this ranking list, Professor Sahlins passed away, April 5, 2021.

An activist since the Vietnam War, Sahlins coined the phrase, teach-in, an academic exercise inviting open discourse, barring any limitation on where the discussion may lead. His work explored the power of culture to shape ideas and beliefs, and the relationship between agency and structure. Sahlins is most famous for his notable contributions in the fields of economic and historical anthropology and he performed most of his research in Hawaiʻi and Fiji.

Sahlins began his trajectory toward becoming one of the world’s most famous anthropologists when he started writing and publishing scholarly works in the late-1950s. His works have included Moala: Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island, The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology, and Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa.

After hearing of its efforts to support military research, Sahlin resigned from the National Academy of Sciences in protest. His principled approach to anthropology has earned him a devoted following, including, of course, the many promising new anthropologists whom he has mentored throughout his teaching career.

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According to Wikipedia, Marshall David Sahlins was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

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Marshall Sahlins's Published Works

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Published Works

Stone Age Economics (2020) (3728)
Culture and Practical Reason (1979) (1399)
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom (1981) (776)
Islands of History. (1986) (609)
Social Stratification in Polynesia (1958) (487)
What Kinship Is-And Is Not (2013) (451)
Two or Three Things That I Know about Culture (1999) (400)
Goodby to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History (1993) (382)
The use and abuse of biology : an anthropological critique of sociobiology (1976) (373)
Evolution and culture (1960) (360)
The Sadness of Sweetness: The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology [and Comments and Reply] (1996) (330)
The Use And Abuse Of Biology (1976) (312)
What kinship is (part one) (2011) (302)
What is Anthropological Enlightenment? Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century (1999) (277)
How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example. (1996) (180)
Anahulu : the anthropology of history in the Kingdom of Hawaii (1996) (178)
The Force of Ethnology: Origins and Significance of the Melanesia/Polynesia Division [and Comments and Replies] (1989) (149)
The stranger‐king or Dumézil among the Fijians ∗ (1981) (145)
The Economics of Develop-Man in the Pacific (1992) (138)
Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
COLORS AND CULTURES (1976) (122)
THE STRANGER-KING OR, ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE POLITICS OF LIFE (2008) (120)
The Western Illusion Of Human Nature (2008) (117)
To the Mountains of the Stars@@@Papua and New Guinea@@@Moala: Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island (1963) (112)
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities (2020) (100)
What kinship is (part two) (2011) (99)
Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History (1983) (93)
On the Sociology of Primitive Exchange (2017) (82)
On the ontological scheme of Beyond nature and culture (2014) (81)
Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa (2004) (73)
Waiting for Foucault, Still (2002) (61)
97. On the Ideology and Composition of Descent Groups (1965) (53)
The original political society (2017) (51)
The origin of society. (1960) (48)
Esoteric Efflorescence in Easter Island (1955) (47)
Economic anthropology and anthropological economics (1969) (47)
The Western illusion of human nature : with reflections on the long history of hierarchy, equality, and the sublimation of anarchy in the West, and comparative notes on other conceptions of the human condition (2008) (42)
Magical Arrows: The Maori, The Greeks, And The Folklore Of The Universe (1992) (41)
The Conflicts of the Faculty (2009) (41)
On the anthropology of modernity; or, some triumphs of culture over despondency theory (2008) (41)
The social life of monkeys, apes and primitive man. (1959) (38)
Confucius Institutes: Academic Malware 孔子学院学術的マルウェア (2014) (35)
Essays in the Science of Culture in Honor of Leslie A. White.@@@Evolution and Culture. (1961) (33)
Structural work (2005) (32)
Artificially maintained controversies: Global warming and Fijian cannibalism (2003) (28)
That's Not What I Said: A Reply to Derek Freeman (1964) (28)
Infrastructuralism (2010) (23)
On the culture of material value and the cosmography of riches (2013) (23)
The Original Affluent Society (1974) (22)
How “Natives” Think About Captain Cook, For Example (1996) (22)
The archaeology of history (1992) (16)
Structural and Eclectic Revisions of Marxist Strategy: A Cultural Materialist Critique [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (16)
The Teach-ins: Anti-war protest in the Old Stoned Age (2009) (14)
Difference: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania 2013 Distinguished Lecture (2013) (14)
Twin-born with greatness (2011) (13)
Deserted Islands of History (1988) (13)
Alterity and autochthony (2012) (13)
ENLIGHTENMENT ? Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century (1999) (8)
The Whole is a Part (2011) (8)
Notes on the multiple structures of history and praxis in Moala (1976) (7)
Waiting for Foucault and other aphorisms (1999) (7)
Production, Distribution and Power in a Primitive Society (1960) (7)
Cosmologies of Capitalism: (2021) (7)
Essays in economic anthropology : dedicated to the memory of Karl Polanyi (1965) (7)
Alterity and Autochthony: Austronesian Cosmographies of the Marvellous (2012) (7)
In anthropology, it’s emic all the way down (2017) (6)
The Best of Anthropology Today (2002) (6)
William Richards on Hawaiian Culture and Political Conditions of the Hawaiian Islands in 1841 (1973) (6)
Exchange Value and the Diplomacy of Primitive Trade (2013) (5)
Artificially Maintained Controversies (Part 2) (2003) (5)
Birth is the metaphor (2012) (5)
THE SPIRIT OF THE GIFT UNE EXPLICATION DE TEXTE (1970) (4)
Editor's Foreword (2000) (4)
The Spirit of the Gift (2013) (3)
Dear colleagues—and other colleagues (2013) (3)
Interview with Marshall Sahlins (2008) (3)
Tahitians in the Early History of Hawaiian Christianity: the Journal of Toketa (1979) (3)
Captain James Cook.@@@The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific.@@@How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example. (1997) (2)
GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Energy and Society: The Relation between Energy, Social Change, and Economic Development. W. Frederick Cottrell (1956) (2)
8. Hawai‘i in the Early Nineteenth Century The Kingdom and the Kingship (2017) (2)
Twin-born with greatness: The dual kingship of Sparta (2011) (2)
Stranger kings in general (2016) (1)
Rationality of the Culture of Goods (1992) (1)
The Stranger‐King or Dumezil among the Fijians: A postscript (1982) (1)
Theses on kingship (2017) (1)
The Domestic Mode of Production: Intensification of Production (2013) (1)
What the Foucault (2018) (1)
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe (2022) (1)
Hawaiian Culture and Political Conditions of the Islands in 1841 (2009) (1)
Structuralism@@@Levi-Strauss: Structuralism and Sociological Theory.@@@Structural Anthropology, Vol. II.@@@A General Theory of Magic.@@@Culture and Practical Reason. (1978) (1)
The human species (1960) (1)
Editor's foreword (2004) (0)
Ethnology: Ain't No Big Thing: Coping Strategies in a Hawaiian‐American Community. Alan Howard. An (1976) (0)
Hunting and Gathering Societies Part Ii. Human Natural History Chapter 3. Hunting and Gathering Societies Chapter 4. Horticultural Societies Chapter 5. Pastoral Societies Chapter 6. Agrarian Societies Chapter 7. Commercial/industrial Societies Chapter 3. Hunting and Gathering Societies (2002) (0)
I KNOW ABOUT CULTURE (2016) (0)
Reprinted from Scientific American : origin (1960) (0)
Review of Apologies to Thucydides, Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa (2010) (0)
Counterfeit COIN and the State of Nature Effect (2020) (0)
The Domestic Mode of Production: The Structure of Underproduction (2013) (0)
Chapter 9 ‘ On the boat of Tangaroa ’ . Humanity and divinity in Polynesian-European first contacts : a reconsideration For (2008) (0)
My Real-Magical Year with Greg Dening (2009) (0)
Social Choice: Sophisticated and (1992) (0)
The ‘ Hau ’ of Research : Mauss Meets Kaupapa (2017) (0)
Marshall Sahlins: Stone Age Economist (1976) (0)
Lewis Henry Morgan, American Scholar. Carl Resek. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1960. xi + 184 pp. Illus. $4.50 (1960) (0)
Introduction to the new edition (2012) (0)
Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Vol. I: Historical Ethnography@@@Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Vol. 2: The Archaeology of History (1994) (0)
Seminar SAW Rethinking Practice and Culture in the History of Science (2016) (0)

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