Culture in Practice - Table of Contents

December 2000
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From Zone Books:
Culture in Practice
Selected Essays
Marshall Sahlins

	Introduction	9

PART ONE	CULTURE

	Introduction to Part One	35

I	African Nemesis: An Off-Broadway Review (1964)	43

II	Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-Man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia (1963)	71

III	The Original Affluent Society (1972)	95

IV	Colors and Cultures (1976)	139

V	La Pensée Bourgeoise: Western Society as Culture (1976)	163

PART TWO	PRACTICE

	Introduction to Part Two	205

VI	The Future of the National Teach-in: A History (1965)	209

VII	The Peace Offensive and the Ky Regime (1966)	219

VIII	The Destruction of Conscience in Vietnam (1966)	229

IX	The Established Order: Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1967)	261

PART THREE	CULTURE IN PRACTICE

	Introduction to Part Three	271

X	Individual Experience and Cultural Order (1982)	277

XI	The Return of the Event, Again (1991)	293

XII	The Discovery of the True Savage (1994)	353

XIII	Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of "The World System" (1988)	415

XIV	Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History (1993)	471

XV	What is Anthropological Enlightenment? Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century (1999)	501

XVI	The Sadness of Sweetness; or, The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology (1996)	527

	Bibliography	585

	Index	629

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