Marshall Sahlins (PhD pela Universidade de Columbia em 1954), é Professor Emérito de Antropologia da Universidade de Chicago. Seus trabalhos estão focados na interseção da cultura e da história.
Publicações:
Social Stratification in Polynesia (1958), Evolution and Culture (ed., 1960), Moala: Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island (1962), Tribesmen (1968), Stone Age Economics (1974: ISBN0422745308), The Use and Abuse of Biology (1976: ISBN 0472087770), Culture and Practical Reason (1976: ISBN 0226733599), Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities (1981: ISBN 0472027212), Islands of History (1985: ISBN 0226733572), Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii (1992: ISBN0226733637), How “Natives” Think: About Captain Cook, for Example (1995: ISBN 0-226-73368-8), Waiting For Foucault (1999: ISBN 1891754114), Culture in Practice (2000: ISBN 094229937X), Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa (2004: ISBN 0226734005), The Western Illusion of Human Nature (2008: ISBN 13-9780979405723)