Stone Age Economics

by Marshall Sahlins

Book Overview

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original "affluent society."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138702617
• ISBN13: 9781138702615
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"