July 26, 2002

Prickly Paradigm Press to Issue Pamphlets by Noted Scholars; Study Tracks Trends in Social Sciences by Measuring Citations

By DAVID GLENN

THORNY SOLUTION: Not long ago, Marshall Sahlins, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Chicago, found himself at work on an essay about a 19th-century war in the Fiji Islands. "I wanted to explore why Thucydides sometimes narrates history in terms of great individual actors and sometimes in terms of collectivities," he says. "I found my answer in Bobby Thomson's 1951 home run ... and then I brought in the Elian Gonzalez

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