| Stone Age Economics Contributor(s): Sahlins, Marshall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0202010996 ISBN-13: 9780202010991 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.42 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1972 Annotation: 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 in factual evidence and in ideas, so rich that a brief review cannot do it justice; only another book could do that." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions |
| Dewey: 306.3 |
| LCCN: 2011016370 |
| Lexile Measure: 1310 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six studies which reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be 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. It consists of a set of detailed and closely related studies of tribal economies, of domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large. |