Culture in Practice. Selected essays

This book collects both the seminal and the more obscure academic and political writings 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 and globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially Pacific Islandres. Throuhout these essays, the author also engages the cultural specificity of the West, developing a critical accounts of the distinctive ways that we act in an understand the world.