biography
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Sahlins, Marshall David
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at Michigan and Columbia universities, and became professor of anthropology at Michigan in 1964, and later professor at Chicago. He has made major contributions in the field of Oceanic ethnography, cultural evolution, economic anthropology, and the analysis of symbolism. In his early work, such as Evolution and Culture (1960), he presented a materialist and progressivist view of cultural evolution. In Culture and Practical Reason (1976), he inverts this perspective, insisting on the autonomy of cultural systems. |
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