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Mit diesem kurzen Text, der in den 1970er-Jahren als erstes Kapitel eines ganzen Bandes zu den Stone Age Economics erschien und erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt, bricht Marshall Sahlins mit dem vorherrschenden ökonomischen Paradigma, dass mehr Arbeit auch mehr Wohlstand bringt. Denn bis heute wird es weltweit täglich Lügen gestraft, was der Annahme von der ursprünglichen Wohlstandgesellschaft die Brisanz verleiht, die sie noch immer hat: Was wäre, wenn wir immer schon reich gewesen sind? Und was verschiebt sich, wenn wir Armut nicht als eine geringe Menge an Gütern...

Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens with Sahlins's early general studies of culture, economy, and human nature. It then moves to his reportage and reflections on the war in Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the event that most strongly affected his thinking about cultural specificity. Finally, it offers his more historical and globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially those of the...

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 "affluent society."

Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between...

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 -affluent society.-

Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between...

Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens with Sahlins's early general studies of culture, economy, and human nature. It then moves to his reportage and reflections on the war in Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the event that most strongly affected his thinking about cultural specificity. Finally, it offers his more historical and globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially those of the...

Sahlins begins by confronting Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War with an analogous "Polynesian War," the fight for the domination of the Fiji Islands (1843-55) between a great...