Marshall Sahlins

Stone Age Economics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;affluent society."e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351732680
• Artikelnr.: 48210538

Autorenporträt

Marshall Sahlins is Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition (David Graeber) Introduction 1.
The Original Affluent Society 2. The Domestic Mode of Production: The
Structure of Underproduction 3. The Domestic Mode or Production:
Intensification of Production 4. The Spirit of the Gift 5. On the Sociology
of Primitive Exchange 6. Exchange Value and the Diplomacy of Primitive
Trade

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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Original Affluent Society -- 2 The Domestic Mode of Production: The Structure of Underproduction -- 3 The Domestic Mode of Production: Intensification of Production -- 4 The Spirit of the Gift -- 5 On the Sociology of Primitive Exchange -- 6 Exchange Value and the Diplomacy of Primitive Trade Bibliography Index.

Rezensionen

'Sahlins' forays into economic anthropology are full of interest.' - Cyril S. Belshaw, American Anthropologist

'The most sophisticated, extensive presentation, and argument in and about, the field of economic anthropology' - Walter C. Neale, Science

'This book is subversive to so many of the fundamental assumptions of Western technological society that it is a wonder it was permitted to be published. Calling on extensive research among the planet's remaining stone-age societies-in Africa, Australia and South-East Asia as well as anecdotal reports from early explorers, Professor Sahlins directly challenges the idea that Western civilization has provided greater 'leisure' or 'affluence,' or even greater reliability, than 'primitive' hunter-gatherers.' - Whole Earth Review

'So rich in factual evidence and in ideas that a brief review cannot do it justice' - E. Evans-Pritchard, Times Literary Supplement

'If our species is to survive, we're going to have to come up with a new economic discipline which starts from very different questions ... there is perhaps no single work of anthropology that so lends itself to this task as Stone Age Economics.' - David Graeber, London School of Economics, UK

'Sahlins' forays into economic anthropology are full of interest.' - Cyril S. Belshaw, American Anthropologist

'The most sophisticated, extensive presentation, and argument in and about, the field of economic anthropology' - Walter C. Neale, Science

'This book is subversive to so many of the fundamental assumptions of Western technological society that it is a wonder it was permitted to be published. Calling on extensive research among the planet's remaining stone-age societies-in Africa, Australia and South-East Asia as well as anecdotal reports from early explorers, Professor Sahlins directly challenges the idea that Western civilization has provided greater 'leisure' or 'affluence,' or even greater reliability, than 'primitive' hunter-gatherers.' - Whole Earth Review

'So rich in factual evidence and in ideas that a brief review cannot do it justice' - E. Evans-Pritchard, Times Literary Supplement

'If our species is to survive, we're going to have to come up with a new economic discipline which starts from very different questions ... there is perhaps no single work of anthropology that so lends itself to this task as Stone Age Economics.' - David Graeber, London School of Economics, UK

Süddeutsche Zeitung | Besprechung von 30.12.2022

Philipp Staab
Soziologe
Mein Buch des Jahres ist ein Klassiker der Anthropologie: Marshall Sahlins „Stone Age Economics“ (De Gruyter, 1972) Insbesondere der berühmte Essay zur „Original Affluent Society“ entwirft ein Bild gesellschaftlichen Reichtums, das Hoffnung stiftet für die großen Transformationen, die vor uns liegen. Er skizziert eine Zivilisation, die sich dem Fortschritt entzieht und gerade deswegen im Überfluss lebt. Überwunden wäre in einer solchen Gesellschaft der nervtötende Konflikt zwischen Wachstum und Verzicht. Vorstellbar wird eine Lebensweise, die im Zeichen der zivilisatorischen Selbstgefährdungen des 21. Jahrhunderts nicht nur vernünftig wäre, sondern zudem fröhlich und schön.
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