num_pages: 362
description: Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies that reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original affluent society. When it was originally published in 1974, E. Evans-Pritchard of the Times Literary Supplement noted that this classic study of anthropological economics "is rich in factual evidence and in ideas, so rich that a brief review cannot do it justice; only another book could do that."
language: English
title: Stone Age Economics
titlecomplete: Stone Age Economics
genres: Politics, Prehistory, Science, Economics, Archaeology, Social Science, Nonfiction, Sociology, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 446
publisher: Routledge