Marshall Sahlins

Marshall Sahlins
Sahlins in 2003
Born	Marshall David Sahlins (1930-12-27)December 27, 1930 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	April 5, 2021(2021-04-05) (aged 90) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Michigan (BA, MA) Columbia University (PhD)
Children	Peter Sahlins
Scientific career
Fields	Cultural Anthropology
Institutions	University of Chicago
Thesis	Social Stratification in Polynesia: a Study of Adaptive Variation in Culture (1954)
Doctoral advisor	Morton Fried
Doctoral students	David Graeber, Dominic Boyer, Martha Kaplan

Anthropology
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Key concepts Culture Development Ethnicity Evolution sociocultural Gender Kinship and descent Meme Prehistory Race Society Value Colonialism / Postcolonialism
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Economic, applied, and development anthropology
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Basic concepts Barter Commodification Cultural capital Debt Embeddedness Finance Gift economy Inalienable possessions Limited good Reciprocity Redistribution Value Wealth Singularization (commodity pathway) Social capital Spheres of exchange
Provisioning systems Hunting-gathering Moral economy Nomadic pastoralism Pastoralism Peasant economics Shifting cultivation
Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell money Provisioning Aché people (hunter-gatherers) Batek people Colonialism and development The Anti-Politics Machine Europe and the People Without History Political economy Jim Crow economy
Related articles Anthropology of development Critique of political economy Culture of poverty Formalist–substantivist debate The Great Transformation Heritage commodification Nutritional anthropology Original affluent society Peasant economics Political economy State formation
Major theorists Paul Bohannan Alexander Chayanov Stanley Diamond Raymond Firth Maurice Godelier David Graeber Jane I. Guyer Keith Hart Marvin Harris Bronisław Malinowski Marcel Mauss Sidney Mintz Karl Polanyi Marshall Sahlins Heinrich Schurtz Harold K. Schneider Eric Wolf
Social and cultural anthropology

Marshall David Sahlins (/ˈsɑːlɪnz/ SAH-linz; December 27, 1930 – April 5, 2021) 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.