His 1972 book,/Stone Age Economics/
<https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1138702617/counterpunchmaga>,
established him as one of American anthropology’s most significant
theorists; he argued that hunter-gatherers were not some primitive
undeveloped representation of human potential but were in
fact/the/original affluent society. Sahlins challenged anthropologists
who used western economic models to study nonmarket economies,
eventually insisting that materialism was nothing but a form of
idealism. In the years that followed he wrote books cutting through the
codes of history, culture, kinship, and mythos, frequently revealing
culture at the core of what was otherwise was conceived in some other
way; all this presented with frequent surges of brilliance.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/09/a-great-tree-has-fallen-the-passing-of-marshall-sahlins/
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