Marshall Sahlins

Marshall David Sahlins () adalah antropolog Amerika Serikat yang menjadi profesor emeritus di University of Chicago.

Kehidupan 
Ia mendapatkan gelar Bachelor dan Master dari University of Michigan tempat ia kuliah bersama Leslie White, dan mendapatkan gelar Ph.D. dari Columbia University pada tahun 1954. Tokoh-tokoh yang memengaruhi pemikiran utamanya adalah Karl Polanyi dan Julian Steward. Ia kemudian mengajar di University of Michigan dan aktif di dunia politik pada tahun 1960-an. Ia pernah berunjuk rasa menentang Perang Vietnam dan, menurut Napoleon Chagnon, mulai mengeluarkan mahasiswa yang tidak mau berunjuk rasa dari program perkuliahan. Pada tahun 1968, ia menandatangani “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” dan berjanji untuk menolak pembayaran pajak sebagai bentuk protes terhadap Perang Vietnam. Pada akhir 1960-an, ia mulai menetap selama dua tahun di Paris, menikmati gaya hidup intelektual Prancis, termasuk karya Claude Lévi-Strauss, serta terlibat dalam protes mahasiswa bulan Mei 1968. Tahun 1973, ia pindah ke University of Chicago dan saat ini merupakan Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology Emeritus. Kakaknya, Bernard Sahlins (1922–2013), adalah penulis dan pelawak.

Karya 
 Social Stratification in Polynesia (1958)
 Evolution and Culture (ed., 1960)
 Moala: Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island (1962)
 Tribesmen (1968)
 Stone Age Economics (1974: ISBN 0-422-74530-8)
 The Use and Abuse of Biology (1976: ISBN 0-472-08777-0)
 Culture and Practical Reason University of Chicago Press (1976: ISBN 0-226-73359-9)
 Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities (1981: ISBN 0-472-02721-2)
 Islands of History  (1985: ISBN 0-226-73357-2)
 Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii (1992: ISBN 0-226-73363-7)
 "Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 65, No. 1, March 1993
 How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example University of Chicago Press (1995: ISBN 0-226-73368-8)
 Waiting For Foucault (1999: ISBN 1-891754-11-4)
 Culture in Practice (2000: ISBN 0-942299-37-X)
 Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa University of Chicago Press (2004: ISBN 0-226-73400-5)
 The Western Illusion of Human Nature (2008: ISBN 978-0-9794057-2-3)
 What Kinship Is–and Is Not University of Chicago Press (2012: ISBN 978-0-226-92512-7)

Lihat pula 
 Stranger King
 Antropologi ekonomi
 Richard Borshay Lee

Referensi

Pranala luar 
 "The Original Affluent Society" , the seminal article by Marshall Sahlins
 Faculty Page  from the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology web site
 http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/sahlins_marshall.html 
 Waiting for Foucault, Still , a pocket-sized book by Sahlins. Published in 2002 by Prickly Paradigm, now available for free online (in pdf).
 Marshall Sahlins, "Poor Man, Rich Man, Big Man, Chief; Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia",  Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 5, No.3, pp. 285–303, April 1963.
 On the anthropology of Levi-Strauss 
 About the controversy with Obeyesekere (See also Death of Cook article, about the 2004 re-discovery of the original painting of the incident by John Cleveley the Younger, showing a less idealised Cook):
 http://www.ahs.cqu.edu.au/humanities/history/52148/modules/pacific_peoplesC.html#obey 
 http://www.snarkout.org/archives/2004/07/20/ 

Kelahiran 1930
Antropolog Amerika Serikat
Alumni University of Michigan
Alumni Columbia University