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Stone Age Economics
Author: Sahlins, Marshall
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 376
Release Date: 25-04-2017
EAN: 9781032165028
Languages: English
Details:
Since its first publication over forty years ago, Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and one of the founding works of anthropological economics. This book radically revises traditional views of 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, exploring the connection between economics and cultural/social factors. He argues that the economy should be viewed as a cultural category, not simply a realm of behavior, likening it to politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence. Sahlins controversially concludes that the experiences of those living in subsistence economies may have been better, healthier, and more fulfilled than those enjoying the affluence and luxury of modern industrial economies.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Graeber from the London School of Economics.
