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Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Stone age economics by marshall david sahlins books on. Stone age economics download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Herskovits published the economic life of primitive peoples in 1940.
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