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028			_a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Opp.-Eye7, Ansari Road, New Delhi _c: TB3375 _d: 07/01/2025
082			_a330.90 SAH
100			_aSahlins, Marshall.
245			_a Stone age economics. _c/ Marshall Sahlins.
260			_a, London _bRoutledge _c , 2023.
300			_axxx, 344p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aSince 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.
650			_a Economics
650			_aAnthropology
650			_aAffluent society
700			_aMarshall Sahlins
942			_cBOOK
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