Citas de Marshall Sahlins

• We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Aventura, Gente, Mente

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• Se dice que entre un tercio y la mitad de la humanidad se acuesta con hambre cada noche. En la Edad de Piedra la fracción debía de ser mucho menor. Esta es la era del hambre sin precedentes. Ahora, en la época del mayor poder técnico, el hambre es una institución. Invirtamos otra fórmula venerable: la cantidad de hambre aumenta relativa y absolutamente con la evolución de la cultura.

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  Night, Humanity, Age

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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• 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 such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.

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  Mean, Civilization, Class

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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• Gifts make friends and friends make gifts.

  Marshall Sahlins

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• Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Thinking, Hunters, Arguing

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