Reddit reviews Stone Age Economics

I have a few you might be interested in:

Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
The footnotes to Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky

Foundation by Isaac Asimov This book will bring up many interesting discussions on power systems, for a discussion group I would recommend just reading the first book in the series and discussing the themes.

The Mexican Revolution by Alan Knight

Dreams of Freedom : A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader

Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin

Fragments of Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber

[Zapatista Reader] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Zapatista-Reader-Nation-Books/dp/1560253355)

Our Word is Our Weapon

The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy

Government is Violence by Leo Tolstoy

That's as much as I can remember, but my recommendations are bias towards my interests.

> Every ideology likes to claim it was the "original" way...

Denying that humans had spent the majority of their existence in a form of primitive communism is the anthropological equivalent to denying evolution or climate change. It's pure anempericism, plain and simple. Anthropologists, especially prehistoric/protohistoric archaeologists, have been operating upon this as established fact since at least the early 70s. [I recommend reading this book and the studies contained within.](
http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Age-Economics-Marshall-Sahlins/dp/0202010996)

> Like feminists, claiming there was this golden age of matriarchy before recorded history began.

lol what? What feminists claim this or even advocate a matriarchy?

My first year in the Master's program I took a seminar in Culture and Economy. We had a pretty good stack of books we read through out the semester. I highly recommend these.

Stephen Gudeman- The Anthropology of Economy

Wilk and Cligget- Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology 2nd Ed

Marshall Sahlins- Stone Age Economics

Karen Ho- Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

Colloredo-Mansfeld- The Native Leisure CLass: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes

Nancy Munn- The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society

Michael T. Taussig- The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

Taussig is a great writer. Wilk and Cligget's book is good for basic foundations Economic Anthropology. Karen Ho's book is also a great institutional ethnography as well. Happy Reading!

http://www.amazon.com/Society-Against-State-Political-Anthropology/dp/0942299019

http://www.amazon.com/People-without-Government-Anthropology-Anarchy/dp/1871082161

http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Age-Economics-Marshall-Sahlins/dp/0202010996

Also, check out pretty much anything by David Graeber.

This is nice too.