This book addresses a central problem in contemporary anthropology - the nature and appropriate analysis of economic life. It consists of a set of detailed and closely related studies of tribal economies: of domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large. In treating tribal economies, the book abandons the entrepreneurial and individualistic conception of 'economy' as a mean-end relationship'Economy' becomes a category of culture rather than behaviour, in a class with politics or religion rather than rationality or prudence: the material-life process of society rather than the need-satisfying activities of individuals.

Published: 1974

No. pages: 348

ISBN: n/a

Condition: FAIR - softcover - 455g