ANTHROPOLOGIST

Marshall Sahlins

1930 - 2021

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Marshall David Sahlins ( SAH-linz; December 27, 1930 – April 5, 2021) was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He was the Charles F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marshall Sahlins has received more than 438,026 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Marshall Sahlins is the 23rd most popular anthropologist (up from 28th in 2019), the 2,320th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,583rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Anthropologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Marshall Sahlins ranks 23 out of 93. Before him are Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Mary Leakey, Marc Augé, Victor Turner, and Cheikh Anta Diop. After him are A. L. Kroeber, Ann Dunham, Jacques de Morgan, Fredrik Barth, Marvin Harris, and Raymond Dart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Marshall Sahlins ranks 133. Before him are Ted Hughes, Oleg Popov, Georgiy Daneliya, Michel Rocard, Franzl Lang, and Lina Kostenko. After him are Fritz Wunderlich, Kinji Fukasaku, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Frank Lucas, and Dündar Ali Osman. Among people deceased in 2021, Marshall Sahlins ranks 125. Before him are Humberto Maturana, Joan Didion, Edward Cassidy, Adam Zagajewski, Renée Simonot, and Jimmy Greaves. After him are Hank Aaron, Alberto Grimaldi, Haya Harareet, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, James Levine, and Yuriy Sedykh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marshall Sahlins ranks 2,320 out of 20,380. Before him are Garrett Morgan (1877), Peter Graves (1926), Shannen Doherty (1971), Leland Stanford (1824), Emma Stone (1988), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815). After him are Myrna Loy (1905), Steve Vai (1960), Louis E. Brus (1943), Martin Chalfie (1947), Kenny Loggins (1948), and Don Taylor (1920).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Marshall Sahlins ranks 6. Before him are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Margaret Mead (1901), Ruth Benedict (1887), Clifford Geertz (1926), and Edward T. Hall (1914). After him are A. L. Kroeber (1876), Ann Dunham (1942), Marvin Harris (1927), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).

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