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Setting the Debate: Why Hunter-Gatherers Were Recast as “Affluent”

Identify the older anthropological view of hunter-gatherers as living in scarcity and explain how Sahlins’s thesis challenged that assumption by redefining affluence around satisfied wants rather than high production.

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Setting the Debate: Why Hunter-Gatherers Were Recast as “Affluent” Older anthropology often described hunter-gatherers as people living close to starvation, with little surplus, little leisure, and constant insecurity. In Week_2_Sahlins,_Kaplan, this earlier...

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