Biography marshall sahlins the sadness of sweetness

  • This paper attempts to lend a broad "archaeological" support to.
  • The Sadness of Sweetness: The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology [and Comments and Reply].
  • This paper represents a short, informative essay on current research into the connections between popular culture, science, religion and anthropology.

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    The Sadness of Sweetness: The Native antropologi of Western Cosmology [and Comments and Reply]

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    Sahlins, M. (1996) The Sadness of Sweetness. The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology

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    This paper aims to provide broad archaeological support for Sidney Mintz's book Sweetness and Power by discussing major anthropological themes in the Judeo-Christian cosmology that seem relevant to Western economic behavior, especially consumption, in the 18th century. The key themes discussed are: 1) The pleasure-pain principle of human action, 2) The idea of an irresistible and egoistical human nature underlying social behavior, 3) The sense of society as an order of power or coercion, and 4) A confidence in the greater providential value of human suffering. The paper argues these themes continue to inhabit mainstream Western social science to the bedevilment of our understandings of other peoples.

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    Bib ID:
    450690
    Format:
    Book
    Author:
    Sahlins, Marshall David, 1930-
    Description:
    • New York : Zone Books, 2000
    • 646 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    ISBN:
    • 0942299388 (paperback)
    • 094229937X (cloth)
    Full 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 Syste
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