Marshall Sahlins

20.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
118 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Marshall Sahlins is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marshall Sahlins has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Demography and 14 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Marshall Sahlins's work include Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (15 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (12 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (9 papers). Marshall Sahlins is often cited by papers focused on Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (15 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (12 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (9 papers). Marshall Sahlins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Colombia. Marshall Sahlins's co-authors include Edmund Leach, Peter J. Wilson, George Gaylord Simpson, Anne Roe, Cora Du Bois, Patrick Vinton Kirch, Cyril S. Belshaw, Jonathan Friedman, Lee Drummond and Jacques Hamel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Marshall Sahlins

108 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Culture and Practical Reason. 1961 2026 1982 2004 1977 2012 1985 1963 1981 250 500 750

Peers

Marshall Sahlins
Marilyn Strathern United Kingdom
Maurice Bloch United Kingdom
Jack Goody United Kingdom
Victor Turner United States
James Clifford United States
Tim Ingold United Kingdom
Fredrik Barth United States
Sherry B. Ortner United States
Marilyn Strathern United Kingdom
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sahlins, Marshall. (2021). Las sociedades tribales.
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Sahlins, Marshall, et al.. (2001). Dos o tres cosas que sé sobre el concepto de cultura. Revista Colombiana de Antropología. 37. 290–327. 6 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall. (1999). Les Lumières en anthropologie ?. Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra). 1 indexed citations
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Barker, John R. & Marshall Sahlins. (1996). How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example.. Pacific Affairs. 69(2). 297–297. 12 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall. (1994). El linaje segmentario: una organización de expansión depredadora. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(7). 99–113. 2 indexed citations
6.
Kirch, Patrick Vinton, Marshall Sahlins, Marshall I. Weisler, & Matthew Spriggs. (1992). The archaeology of history. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall. (1992). Rationality of the Culture of Goods. ACR North American Advances. 1 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall. (1990). Cosmologías del capitalismo: el sector trans-pacífico del «sistema mundial». SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 95–107.
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Sahlins, Marshall & Jacques Revel. (1989). Des îles dans l'histoire. 13 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall. (1988). Cultura y razón práctica. 10 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall. (1988). Cultura y razon practica. Contra el utilitarismo en la teoria antropologica. 3 indexed citations
12.
Friedman, Jonathan & Marshall Sahlins. (1987). Islands of History.. History and Theory. 26(1). 72–72. 21 indexed citations
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Howe, K. R. & Marshall Sahlins. (1986). Islands of History.. Pacific Affairs. 59(3). 548–548. 1 indexed citations
14.
Sahlins, Marshall, et al.. (1982). Uso y abuso de la biología: una crítica antropológica de la sociobiología. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 38(1_suppl). 126S–139S. 4 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall, et al.. (1981). Kultur und praktische Vernunft. Suhrkamp eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall & Sylvie Fainzang. (1980). Au cœur des sociétés : raison utilitaire et raison culturelle. Gallimard eBooks. 9 indexed citations
17.
Sahlins, Marshall. (1976). The Use and Abuse of Biology. University of Michigan Press eBooks. 259 indexed citations
18.
Sahlins, Marshall. (1972). Âge de pierre, âge d'abondance : l'économie des sociétés primitives. Gallimard eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Belshaw, Cyril S. & Marshall Sahlins. (1962). Moala. Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island.. Pacific Affairs. 35(3). 306–306. 76 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Marshall. (1962). Moala. University of Michigan Press eBooks. 80 indexed citations

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