Stone Age EconomicsAmbitiously 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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The Original Affluent Society | 1 |
The Spirit of the Gift | 149 |
On the Sociology of Primitive Exchange | 185 |
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agricultural anthropology appears Arnhem Land axes balanced reciprocity Bemba big-man Busama Bushmen camp capacity Chayanov chief chiefly chieftainship cultivation cultural customary demand distribution domestic groups domestic mode economic economic anthropology ethnographic example exchange value feast Firth fish force forest garden generosity gift give Hadza Hawaiian kinship Hobbes Hogbin household hunters and gatherers hunting Huon Gulf intensity Kapauku kinship distance kinsmen labor land Maori material mauri Mauss Mazulu means Melanesian mode of production native nature neolithic nomic normal Nuer obligations organization Original Affluent Society output paleolithic partners party perhaps persons pigs political Polynesia population Pospisil pots present primitive societies principle Ranapiri rank rates reason redistribution relative sector seems segmentary sharing Siassi social relations spears structure subsistence supply surplus Table taonga taro Tetiaroa things Tikopia tion trade transactions tribal tribes Uezd Vaitere variation village wealth