La Voie du Tao (Arte)

Marshall Sahlins Marshall David Sahlins (born December 27, 1930) is an American anthropologist who is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.[1] Life[edit] He received both a Bachelors and Masters degree at the University of Michigan where he studied with Leslie White, and earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1954 where his main intellectual influences included Karl Polanyi and Julian Steward. He returned to teach at the University of Michigan and in the 1960s became politically active, protesting against the Vietnam War and (according to Napoleon Chagnon) began flunking students out of the graduate program who failed to protest.[2] In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[3] In the late 1960s, he also spent two years in Paris, where he was exposed to French intellectual life (and particularly the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss) and the student protests of May 1968.