Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GW.T FS.E Sahl / College 6e - Englisch	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Stoneage Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of six influential essays is one of Marshall Sahlins' most influential and enduring works, claiming that stone age economies formed the original affluent society. The book examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. This edition includes a new foreword by the author. (Verlagstext) / "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 Southeast Asia - as well as anecdotal reports from early explorers, Chicago University Professor Marshall Sahlins directly challenges the idea that Western civilization has provided greater "leisure," or "affluence, " or even greater economic reliability, than primitive" hunter-gatherers. He concludes that far from being on the edge of starvation and having to devote all their time to survival, preindustrial peoples usually satisfied their basic needs in 3-4 hours per day and spent the rest of their time hanging around, flirting, creating art, music, and games, and sleeping. [...]" (Whole earth Review ; vollst. Rezension s. unten angeführten Link)