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 that, as a method of conflict resolution, many Indigenous peoples welcomed colonization. This developer of the Stranger King theory clashed with Gananath Obeyesekere over systems of rationality in the context of Captain Cook’s death. This anthropologist analyzed the “Domestic (10[1])Mode of Production” in a 1972 book arguing that Neolithic people only needed to work 15 hours a week. That book by this anthropologist of Islands of History noted that hunter-gatherers were the “original affluent (10[1])society.” For 10 points, name this anthropologist who wrote Stone Age Economics. ■END■ (0[6])

ANSWER: Marshall Sahlins [or Marshall David Sahlins]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jon SuhHarvard AMIT A7810
Alex JiangBrown ABrandeis A11310
Eren MicheletBUDartmouth A1260
Khugan ChanUMass BostonHarvard B1260
Andrew MessersmithBrandeis BTufts A1260
John ChaTufts ABrandeis B1260
Chloe ChowHarvard BUMass Boston1260
William ParocaiDartmouth ABU1260

Summary

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Great Lakes2025-02-01Y520%0%20%95.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y650%0%17%103.00
Midwest2025-02-01Y683%0%17%85.60
North2025-02-01Y250%0%0%97.00
Northeast2025-02-01Y540%0%0%95.50
Overflow2025-02-01Y560%0%20%75.00
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y250%0%0%97.00
South Central2025-02-01Y250%0%0%94.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y40%0%0%0.00
UK2025-02-01Y1030%0%20%106.67
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y667%0%0%104.00
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y20%0%0%0.00