Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment

by John Gowdy

For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived in small bands of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, finding everything they needed to survive and thrive in the biological richness that surrounded them. Most if not all of the problems that threaten our own technologically advanced society -- from depletion of natural capital to the ever-present possibility of global annihilation -- would be inconceivable to these traditional,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155963555X
• ISBN13: 9781559635554
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"