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This is the current revision of this page, as edited by Citation bot (talk | contribs) at 12:56, 9 March 2024 (Add: s2cid, date. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Economic anthropology | #UCB_Category 5/28). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version. The "original affluent society" is the proposition that argues that the lives of hunter-gatherers can be seen as embedding a sufficient degree of material comfort and security to be considered affluent. The theory was first put forward in a paper presented by Marshall Sahlins at a famous symposium in 1966 entitled 'Man the Hunter'. Sahlins observes that affluence is the satisfaction of wants, "which may be 'easily satisfied' either by producing much or desiring little."[1] Given a culture characterized by limited wants, Sahlins argued that hunter-gatherers were able to live 'affluently' through the relatively easy satisfaction of their material needs. At the time of the symposium new resea

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