The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.
Gifts make friends and friends make gifts. - Marshall Sahlins
Gifts make friends and friends make gifts.
- Marshall Sahlins
We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of a… - Marshall Sahlins
We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of a…
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is th… - Marshall Sahlins
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is th…
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a rel… - Marshall Sahlins
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a rel…
Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist M… - Marshall Sahlins
Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist M…
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