Economic Anthropology

Book Details:

• ISBN: 9788130717890
• Volumes: Set in 2 Volumes
• Author: Melville Jean Herskovits
• Pages: 674 pp
• Year of Publishing: 2019
• Binding: Hardbound
• Publisher: Cosmo Publications

“Herskovits was the author of influential general works. These include: The Myth of the Negro Past (1941), in which he exploded pervasive racial myths; The Economic Life of Primitive People (1940), still considered a basic text in economic anthropology… weakness of the early studies of primitive economics has led to the appearance of a new “school” of anthropologists who have devoted themselves to studies of primitive economic life in great detail, using the terminologies of economic analysis in order to make comparisons between different societies… the goal of this newer group of anthropologists is to derive some general principles of economic behaviour among primitive peoples out of detailed studies of everyday economic affairs. Melville Herskovits’ book is a product of this… school of anthropologists”.—By Dr. Daniel R. Fusfeld, in The Journal of Economic History, published by the Cambridge University Press