Question

In a speech to a group of social anthropologists, this thinker called atheism a “one-word solution to all the world’s current problems”; that speech by this thinker was published as Waiting For Foucault, Still. This thinker developed a theory positing (10[1])that, as a method of conflict resolution, many Indigenous peoples welcomed colonization. This developer of the Stranger King theory clashed with Gananath Obeyesekere over (10[1])systems of rationality in the context of Captain Cook’s death. This (10[1])anthropologist analyzed the “Domestic Mode of Production” in a 1972 book arguing that Neolithic people only needed to work 15 hours a week. (-5[1])That book by this anthropologist of Islands of History noted that hunter-gatherers were the “original affluent society.” For 10 points, name this anthropologist who wrote Stone Age Economics. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Marshall Sahlins [or Marshall David Sahlins]
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Claire JonesChicago AChicago C6310
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