Stone Age Economics

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."

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<p> "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." <p> --"Whole Earth Review" <p> "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." <p> --E. Evans-Pritchard, "Times Literary Supplement" <p> "Sahlin's concept of the 'domestic mode of production' starts to give economic anthropology its necessary comparative basis." <p> --Mary Douglas

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