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Marshall D. Sahlins, titan of anthropology, 1930–2021
Marshall D. Sahlins, an eminent cultural anthropologist of the Pacific known for sparking lively academic debates, died April 5. He was 90.
Renowned for his prolific contributions to anthropology, Sahlins was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. For decades, he studied the history and ethnography of communities in Hawaii, Fiji and other islands in the South Pacific during the period of European contact—engaging his research with indigenous political structures, modes of kinship and conceptions of nature.
For Sahlins, anthropology was both a privilege and an adventure, offering an opportunity to “reproduce within one’s mind the way the world is put together for other people,” he said during a 2014 appearance at the Chicago Humanities Festival.
“Anthropology, in some ways, has an even better chance of truth than physics—because truth is human, and so are you,” Sahlins added in an interview last year.
Born Dec. 27, 1930, in Chicago, Sahlins received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1951 and 1952, and his doctorate from Columbia University in 1954. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1973, after teaching
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Sahlins–Obeyesekere debate
Anthropology debate
The Sahlins–Obeyesekere debate is an academic controversy in anthropology about the death of the British explorer James Cook, particularly whether the native Hawaiians believed him to be Lono, an akua "deity" associated with fertility, agriculture, rainfall, music and peace. The debate took shape in 1992, when Gananath Obeyesekere published The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, which criticized the work of Marshall Sahlins on the issue. In addition to the factual issues, the debate has become symbolic of deeper issues in anthropology, including whether Western scholars can understand non-Western cultures.[1][2][3][4]