Marshall Sahlins

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Stone Age EconomicsPaperback, 25 April 2017

Stone Age Economics
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Part of Series
Routledge Classics
Print Length
346 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Routledge
Date Published
25 Apr 2017
ISBN-10
1138702617
ISBN-13
9781138702615

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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

Author:
Marshall Sahlins
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
25 April 2017
Dimensions:
21.59 x 13.97 x 1.98 cm
ISBN-10:
1138702617
ISBN-13:
9781138702615
Language:
English
Location:
Oxford
Pages:
346
Publisher:
Weight:
435.45 gm

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