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Stone Age Economics (Hardcover)
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Stone Age Economics (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Classics
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Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's
Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern
anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of
anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of
economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically
revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called
primitive societies, revealing them to be the original "affluent
society." Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and
exchange in early communities and examines the link between
economics and cultural and social factors. A radical study of
tribal economies, domestic production for livelihood, and of the
submission of domestic production to the material and political
demands of society at large, Stone Age Economics regards the
economy as a category of culture rather than behaviour, in a class
with politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence.
Sahlins concludes, controversially, that the experiences of those
living in subsistence economies may actually have been better,
healthier and more fulfilled than the millions enjoying the
affluence and luxury afforded by the economics of modern
industrialisation and agriculture. This Routledge Classics edition
includes a new foreword by David Graeber, London School of
Economics.
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