A Golub

Biographic Data

ID11469
NAMEA Golub
GIVEN NAMESA
FAMILY NAMEGolub
SIGNATUREGOLUB A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
ORCID0000-0002-4683-3513
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS163
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Marshall Sahlins: A Life of Transformations

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLEEncyclopédie Bérose des histoires…2026

    Bénéficiant d'une grande considération et d'une non moindre notoriété, Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) n'en reste pas moins une personnalité difficile à cerner. S'il est sans conteste l'un des anthropologues étatsuniens les plus en vue de la période de la guerre froide, qu'est-il : un anthropologue économique ou politique ? Est-il matérialiste ou structuraliste ? A-t-on affaire à un théoricien de la pratique, un anthropologue historique ; adhéra-t-i…

  • Afterword

    A GolubARTICLEMagic, ritual, and witchcraft2025

    This aferword to the Discussion Forum reflects on the limitations, but also the usefulness, of Marshall Sahlins's New Science . Sahlins lacked an awareness of his own positionality in ways that have made his work unnatractive to Indigenous scholars (and scholars in the field of Indigenous Studies), but his epistemological self-confidence also made possible a mode of culture critique still important today

  • Sahlins, Marshall (1930–2021)

    Open AccessA GolubOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2024

    Marshall Sahlins (1930–2021) was an American cultural anthropologist and one of the most influential anthropologists of the second half of the twentieth century. Sahlins was an expert on Pacific Island cultures, especially Hawaiʻi and Fiji. Theoretically, he championed the explanatory potential of the culture concept

  • Four challenges from anthropology's current meta

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2024References: 8

    An examination of American anthropology from 1974 to 2024 shows that the discipline faces novel challenges in today's "meta," or media ecosystem: two challenges facing theory and two facing ethnography. To remain successful, anthropology must meet these challenges

  • Introduction to Special Issue 'Rethinking Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessA Golub, Courtney HandmanARTICLEOceania2024References: 32

    This article is an introduction to a special issue entitled 'Rethinking Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea'. This introduction suggests that we view 'decolonisation' or 'independence' not only as a historical period, but as an event that has been imagined by many people both during and after it occurred. Drawing on the work of Adom Getachew, we argue that it is fruitful to examine decolonisation in this extended sense. Doing so, this article argu…

  • Never a Colony: Rethinking the Colonisation of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLEOceania2024References: 16

    This article examines the history of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, from 1952 to 1975 in order to understand how pre-colonial governance of the province laid the groundwork for the problems of weak governance that plagued Enga in the independence era. The most appropriate models to understand this issue, the article claims, come not from the comparative study of decolonised states such as those in Africa, but from the European experience of sta…

  • Full Issue

    Rashi K Shukla, M Dimock et al.ARTICLEHumboldt Journal of Social…2022

    This special issue of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations visits one of the most polarizing policy debates in the US. In 2012, voters in Washington and Colorado passed initiatives that legalized the recreational use of marijuana. In fact, there were about 75,000 more votes cast in support of marijuana legalization in Colorado than were given to reelect President Obama. Yet according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, Demo…

  • Historical anthropology from a 'freezing January' in 1990 to the present

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLESuomen Antropologi Journal of the…2022

    What a pleasure it is to read Culture and History in the Pacific (Siikala 2021b [1990]) once again. The new, open access edition of this important volume brings back memories of my days in graduate school at the University of Chicago in the late 1990s. Such memories are bittersweet: as I write this piece in April 2021 I have just received word that my dissertation supervisor Marshall Sahlins has passed away at the age of 90. I'd like to take this…

  • Jaimie Pearl Bloom (James F. Weiner) (1950–2020)

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2021

  • Restraint without Control’: Law and Order in Porgera and Enga Province, 1950–2015

    A GolubCHAPTERThe Absent Presence of the State…2021

    The clans are fighting a mile away. They paint their faces, wear bits of grass and bark to tell us this is happening at an earlier time. Do not believe it, this is wishful thinking; they wear suits and conquer the centuries by aircraft. In capital cities they shake each others hands, careless of what smears them. They are what old men fearing, feared to predict

  • Encountering Anthropology: An Interview with Martha Macintyre

    Martha Macintyre, A GolubCHAPTERUnequal Lives2021

  • In Memoriam: Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021)

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLEJournal de la Société des…2021Cited by: 1

    I am honoured to memorialize my mentor, Marshall Sahlins, in this issue of the jso. I first met Sahlins in 1995, when I arrived at the University of Chicago to earn a Ph.D.. In fact, I had not expected to be admitted to Chicago. My undergraduate thesis featured a lengthy critique of Sahlins's work, which I believed misread the influence of Heidegger on Bourdieu. Surely, I assumed, Sahlins would block my admission to his department since I had cri…

  • The Legacy of Bernard Narokobi and the Melanesian Way

    Lise M Dobrin, A GolubARTICLEJournal of Pacific History2020Cited by: 5

    This special issue on the life and legacy of Bernard Narokobi documents and contextualizes Narokobi's life and thought. A central figure in Papua New Guinea's transition from Australian territory to independent nation, Narokobi was a jurist, philosopher, and poet who is best remembered for making ‘the Melanesian Way’ an important theme – if not the guiding ideological principle – in the discourse of independence in Papua New Guinea. In looking cl…

  • Legislating the Melanesian Way: Bernard Narokobi and the Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea

    A GolubARTICLEJournal of Pacific History2020

    A common criticism of Bernard Narokobi is that his vision of the ‘Melanesian Way’ was vague and imprecise. This article argues against this claim by describing the activities Narokobi undertook as the head of the Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea (1975–8). Using the example of his suggested revision of adultery laws, this article shows that Narokobi realized his abstract vision of the Melanesian Way in the most concrete and specific way p…

  • Bibliography of the Works of Bernard Narokobi

    A Golub, Gregory Bablis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific History2020

    This bibliography is a first step in recording the writing of Bernard Narokobi. It is organized in three sections. The first section lists published pieces by Narokobi as sole author. Successive ed

  • Contrarian Anthropology: The Unwritten Rules of Academia

    A GolubARTICLEAnthropological Forum2019

    Contrarian Anthropology: The Unwritten Rules of Academia." Anthropological Forum, 29(4), pp. 407–408

  • Mining

    Open AccessA Golub, F Stein et al.ARTICLEOpen Encyclopedia of Anthropology2019

    Mining has occurred for thousands of years, and social anthropologists have studied it for almost a century. This entry explains anthropology's principle findings about mining, beginning with the lives of miners who participate in both large-scale mining (LSM) and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). It then discusses the politics of 'mining encounters' in which miners, local communities, and other stakeholders such as NGOs and the government …

  • S ahlins, M arshall (b. 1930)

    Open AccessA GolubOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Marshall Sahlins is a US cultural anthropologist and one of the most influential anthropologists of the second half of the twentieth century, in fields including economic anthropology, historical anthropology, and kinship studies. Sahlins is known as an expert on Pacific Island cultures, especially Hawai‘i and Fiji. Theoretically, he has championed the explanatory potential of the culture concept

  • Welcoming the New Amateurs: A future (and past) for non-academic anthropologists

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLECommoning Ethnography2018Cited by: 2References: 1

    How can we create a more inclusive Pacific anthropology? This article argues that contemporary anthropology's disciplinary norms are based in the Cold War period. These norms are inappropriate given anthropology's current situation. This article argues that interwar anthropology (the anthropology practiced between World War I and World War II) provides us a better set of imaginative resources to create a more common ethnography. Interwar anthropo…

  • Introduction: The Politics of Order in Contemporary Papua New Guinea

    A GolubARTICLEAnthropological Forum2018Cited by: 3References: 49

    This collection of articles seeks to demonstrate that the concept of order – the intensive and extensive coordination of human action across space and time – is useful for answering some of the most pressing theoretical and practical questions in contemporary Papua New Guinea (PNG) today. Building on existing work in this field [Benda-Beckmann, K., and F. Pirie. 2007. "Introduction." In Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives, 1–15. New …

  • Ben Finney: Anthropologist and Voyager

    A GolubARTICLEJournal of Pacific History2017

    Benjamin Rudolph Finney was born on 1 October 1933 in Southern California, the son of a navy man. He began surfing in 1953, and earned a BA from the University of California (UC), Berkeley in histo

  • A Practice of Anthropology – The Work of Marshall Sahlins, So Far

    A Golub, Daniel Rosenblatt et al.CHAPTERA Practice of Anthropology2016

  • Travels with Frances Densmore: Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies (Jensen and Patterson, eds.)

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLEMuseum Anthropology Review…2016

    This work is a book review considering the title Travels with Frances Densmore: Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies edited by Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick Patterson

  • Anthropological Publics and their Onlookers: The Dynamics of Multiple Audiences in the Blog ‘Savage Minds’

    A Golub, Kerim FriedmanCHAPTERMedia, Anthropology and Public…2015

  • An Anthropologist’s Arrival: A Memoir (Underhill; Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Nash, eds.)

    Open AccessA GolubARTICLEMuseum Anthropology Review…2015

    is best remembered for her widely taught Autobiography of a Papago Indian (Menasha, WI: American Anthropological Association, 1936), popular writings about Indian life, and for being a pioneering female anthropologist.Like many Boasians, Underhill had an unconventional life.Born to a wealthly New York Quaker family, she worked as a novelist and social worker before beginning her Ph.D., which she earned in 1937 at the age of 54.She worked in vario…