Dan Beaver

This book is a collection of essays by an American anthropologist who taught at the University of Chicago. Marshall Sahlins's work and seminar on Fijian history became my introduction to a linguistic view of culture and the experience of historical continuity and change that continues to inform my understanding of history. Thanks to Sahlins, I came to work on the early modern British Isles and Europe via Oceania, a crooked road that has greatly enriched the travel.