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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Sahlins, Marshall, 1930- Stone age economics. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge Classics, 2017 (DLC) 2017009801 (OCoLC)976423730 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marshall Sahlins |
ISBN: | 9781351732680 1351732684 9781315184951 1315184958 9781315184951 9781351732697 1351732692 9781351732673 1351732676 |
OCLC Number: | 984992967 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | 1. The original affluent society -- 2. The domestic mode of production : the structure of underproduction -- 3. The domestic mode of production : intensification of production -- 4. The spirit of the gift -- 5. On the sociology of primitive exchange -- 6. Exchange value and the diplomacy of primitive trade. |
Series Title: | Routledge classics. |
Responsibility: | Marshall Sahlins ; with a new foreword by David Graeber. |
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"Sahlins' forays into economic anthropology are full of interest." Cyril S. Belshaw, American Anthropologist"Stone Age Economics, while not a survey of the economic anthropology, is as of now the most sophisticated, extensive presentation, and argument in and about, the field." Walter C. Neale, Science"This book is subversive to so many of the fundamental assumptions of Western technological society that it is a wonder it was permitted to be published. Calling on extensive research among the planet's remaining stone-age societies-in Africa, Australia and South-East Asia as well as anecdotal reports from early explorers, Professor Sahlins directly challenges the idea that Western civilization has provided greater 'leisure' or 'affluence,' or even greater reliability, than 'primitive' hunter-gatherers." Whole Earth Review"His book is rich in factual evidence and in ideas, so rich that a brief review cannot do it justice; only another book could do that." E. Evans-Pritchard, Times Literary Supplement Read more...

