Stone Age EconomicsThis book addresses a central problem of anthropology: the nature and appropriate analysis of economic life. It consists of a set of detailed and closely related studies of tribal economies: of domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large. Originally published in 1974. |
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Abelam 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 Firth fish force forest garden generosity gift give Guinea Hadza Hawaiian kinship Hobbes Hogbin household hunters and gatherers hunting Huon Gulf intensity Kapauku kinship distance kinsmen labor Maori material mauri Mauss Mazulu means Melanesian mode of production native nature neolithic nomic normal Nuer obligations Oceania organization Original Affluent Society output paleolithic partners party perhaps persons pigs political 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