Quotes by Marshall Sahlins

About Marshall Sahlins:

Marshall David Sahlins is an American anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He is currently Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.
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One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an ins...

Marshall Sahlins

The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As...

Marshall Sahlins

Author Bio

  • NameMarshall Sahlins
  • DescriptionAmerican anthropologist
  • BornDecember 27, 1930
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAnthropologist; Educationist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship