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 anthropology. — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
“We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
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… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share
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… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
