Segal on Marshall Sahlins. This piece continues the discussion of Sahlins’ contribution to anthropology, his links to Europe and why his work continues to be relevant.

I would like to thank the AJEC blog for inviting me to remember my mentor and dissertation supervisor Marshall Sahlins, and particularly his connection to Europe. Famously, Sahlins spent two years in Paris in the late 1960s. He arrived just in time for May ’68 — he told me once that he held his first seminar and then, …

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