Stone age economics
- London : Routledge, 2017
- xxx, 345 p. ; ill., 22 cm
- Routledge Classics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Stone Age Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of six essays, first published in 1974, is one of Marshall Sahlin's most influential and enduring works, asserting that Stone Age economies formed the original affluent society. The book examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors.
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Economic anthropology Primitive societies Barter Chieftainship Culture design Domestic group Anthropological economics Hunting-gathering community Kinship relation Labor Nuer culture Reciprocity Sharing Ona tribe