This anthropologist criticized the belief that human culture is formulated from "practical activity" or "utilitarian interest" in Culture and Practical Reason, and contrasted leaders who build personal renown to acquire a "fund of power" with leaders whose power comes from their office, not personal superiority, in his essay "Poor Man, Rich Man, Big Man, Chief."
This thinker compared the Peloponnesian War with the conflicts between the Rewa and Bau kingdoms in Apologies to Thucydides. In 2001, this social scientist took over Prickly Paradigm Press, which publishes pamphlets like his satire Waiting for Foucault. This anthropologist criticized the belief that human culture is formulated from "practical activity" or "utilitarian interest" in Culture and Practical Reason, and contrasted leaders who build personal renown to acquire a "fund of power" with leaders whose power comes from their office, not personal superiority, in his essay "Poor Man, Rich Man, Big Man, Chief." Gananath Obeyesekere has strongly criticized this anthropologist's book Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities for arguing that Hawaiians mistook Captain Cook for the god Lono and killed him during the Makihiki. For 10 points, name this American anthropologist whose book Stone Age Economics asserted that ? hunter-gatherers were the "original affluent society."
This thinker compared the Peloponnesian War with the conflicts between the Rewa and Bau kingdoms in Apologies to Thucydides.
{Marshall Sahlins}