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Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa
by Marshall Sahlins
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Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture Moving easily between concrete cases and general principles Sahlins makes a compelling argument that there is no history without culture and vice versa As a classicist who has benefited from Sahlinss previous work I appreciate this view of Greek history through an anthropologists eyes Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture Moving easily between concrete cases and general principles Sahlins makes a compelling argument that there is no history without culture and vice versa As a classicist who has benefited from Sahlins’s previous work I appreciate this view of Greek history through an anthropologist’s eyes Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins Thucydides classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history—including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone elses Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa Finally again departing from Thucydides Sahlins considers the relationship between cultural order and historical contingency through the recounting of a certain royal assassination that changed the course of Fijian history a story of fratricide and war worthy of Shakespeare Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa Chicago University of Chicago Press 2004 From the publisher Thucydides’ classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history—including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else’s Apologies to Thucydides Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa ©2004 320 pages 19 halftones 9 maps 13 line drawings Cloth 3000 ISBN 0226734005 For information on purchasing the book—from bookstores or here online—please go to the webpage for Apologies to Thucydides Review of Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History Thucydides classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history—including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone elses Here Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture Although I prefer narrative history with its seeming movers and shakers and its chronological descriptions of events I have to admit that Sahlins makes very good points for Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa as he subtitled this book Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture Thucydides classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history—including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone elses Here Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa Edition 1 Thucydides classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history—including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone elses
