Stone Age Economics,

by Marshall Sahlins

Book Overview

Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies that reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original affluent society. When it was originally published in 1974, E. Evans-Pritchard of the Times Literary Supplement noted that this classic study of anthropological economics "is rich...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202010988
• ISBN13: 9780202010984
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Aldine
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.