‘Stone Age Economics’, Marshall Sahlins (1972) – ‘A Book in Five Minutes’, No.16
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2022-08-20

Ramblinactivist 2022/26, 20th August 2022.

Beginning as a presentation in 1966, what Sahlins challenged was the historic prejudice which dismissed the rights and value of ‘undeveloped’ societies and their ‘state of nature’.

Sahlins’ revolutionary approach was to look upon the state of these peoples not as ‘lesser’, or ‘undeveloped’, but as ‘affluent’; because they enjoyed something which people in the modern era, with all their material wealth, did not have – true economic freedom. [Note: A link to a free on-line version is given in the page linked below!!]

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