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Stone Age Economics

By Marshall Sahlins

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Stone Age Economics

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
376
Release Date:
2017-04-25
Publication Date:
2017-04-25
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1138702617
ISBN13:
9781138702615
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
473 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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