Extended leisure time in prehistory: Stone Age Economics

[Tony Gosling]

Stone Age Economics

by 
<https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/968.Marshall_Sahlins>Marshall 
Sahlins (Editor)
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.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28254.Stone_Age_Economics

Not only an interesting read about the economy and trade of different 
tribes all over the world, but also a great insight into the mind of 
ancient people. It is often easy to think that an average stone-age 
man or woman had to do a lot of hard work in order to obtain all the 
necessities but Sahlins' essays really show the ingenuity, logic and 
rationalism of these stone age people. Of all the many fine examples 
the author has described, my favourite has to be the trading system 
of the New Guinea coastal villages where every village had its fixed 
position in the trading network which worked like clockwork. 
Extremely enjoyable although at times I found the more concrete 
examples of different tribes and their lifestyle more interesting 
than the more theoretical parts.


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."

Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in 
early communities and examines the link between economics and 
cultural and social factors. A radical study of tribal economies, 
domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic 
production to the material and political demands of society at large, 
Stone Age Economics regards the economy as a category of culture 
rather than behaviour, in a class with politics and religion rather 
than rationality or prudence. Sahlins concludes, controversially, 
that the experiences of those living in subsistence economies may 
actually have been better, healthier and more fulfilled than the 
millions enjoying the affluence and luxury afforded by the economics 
of modern industrialisation and agriculture.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David 
Graeber, London School of Economics.

Emacs!
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