| Description |
646 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Culture -- I. African Nemesis: An Off-Broadway Review (1964) -- II. Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-Man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia (1963) -- III. The Original Affluent Society (1972) -- IV. Colors and Cultures (1976) -- V. La Pensee Bourgeoise: Western Society as Culture (1976) -- Pt. 2. Practice -- VI. The Future of the National Teach-In: A History (1965) -- VII. The Peace Offensive and the Ky Regime (1966) -- VIII. The Destruction of Conscience in Vietnam (1966) -- IX. The Established Order: Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1967) -- X. Individual Experience and Cultural Order (1982) -- XI. The Return of the Event, Again (1991) -- XII. The Discovery of the True Savage (1994) -- XIII. Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of "The World System" (1988) -- XIV. Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History (1993) -- XV. What Is Anthropological Enlightenment? Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century (1999) -- XVI. The Sadness of Sweetness; or, The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology (1996) |
| Notes |
A collection of essays written over a period of thirty years |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-627) and index |
| Subject |
Anthropology.
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Civilization.
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Culture.
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Sociology.
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| LC no. |
99011469 |
| ISBN |
094229937X (cloth) |
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0942299388 (paperback) |
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