Sahlins' forays into economic anthropology are full of interest. Cyril S. Belshaw, American Anthropologist Stone Age Economics, while not a survey of the economic anthropology, is as of now the most sophisticated, extensive presentation, and argument in and about, the field. Walter C. Neale, Science ... Read more 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 South-East Asia as well as anecdotal reports from early explorers, Professor Sahlins directly challenges the idea that Western civilization has provided greater 'leisure' or 'affluence,' or even greater reliability, than 'primitive' hunter-gatherers. Whole Earth Review His book is rich in factual evidence and in ideas, so rich that a brief review cannot do it justice; only another book could do that. E. Evans-Pritchard, Times Literary Supplement Show Less