Stoner

Since its first publication in 1972, Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of economic anthropology, one of the founding works of anthropological economics. In this radical revisionism of traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, Marshall Sahlins radically revised traditional views of the hunter-gatherer economy and revealed them to be a society of affluent. He 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 submission to material and political demands of society at large, Stone Age Economics regards the economy as a category of culture rather than behavior, in a class with politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence.