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Marshall Sahlins was professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, and the author of Stone Age Economics (1972) and The Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity. A co-founder and former executive publisher of Prickly Paradigm Press, he also authored under its imprint The Western Illusion of Human Nature (2008) and What the Foucault? (2018).
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by Marvin Harris
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