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Davis was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, a champion for civil rights and women's rights, and a consultant on the film “The Return of Martin Guerre.”
Marshall D. Sahlins, Groundbreaking Anthropologist, Dies at 90 His work focused on the way cultures shape, and are shaped by, individuals — a framework he demonstrated through his passionate political activism. Marshall D. Sahlins in an undated photo. He was renowned as both an anthropologist and a political activist.Credit...Ulf Andersen/Getty Images April 10, 2021, 2:30 p.m. ET Marshall D. Sahlins, a brilliant and witty anthropologist who, starting in the 1970s, explored how individuals shape and are shaped by their cultures — a point he had already put in practice a decade earlier as t...