ABSTRACT

Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist, Vol. 59, No. 2, 1957. Marshall D. Sahlins is Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. His principal research interests are cultural ecology, primitive economics, and peoples of the Pacific. He is the author of Social Stratification in Polynesia, Evolution and Culture (with Elman R. Service and others), Moala: Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island, and Tribesmen.