What specifically are the traditional ideas about hunter-gatherers and what were Sahlins’ criticisms of those ideas?
Marshal Sahlins and The Original Affluent Society In the essay The Original Affluent Society (first published in 1968), Marshal Sahlins argues that traditional ideas about hunter-gatherers are wrong and that hunter-gatherers were actually the original affluent society, even though they lack material wealth. Eleven years later, Richard Lee published the book, The Dobe Ju/’hoansi. Does […]