ABSTRACT
In previous chapters we have sketched the evolution of primitive culture from two principal standpoints, technological and social. In the latter category we have dealt with social organization in general and with kinship, division of labor, and social control in particular. We now undertake to trace the course of cultural development from the standpoint of economic organization. But what is economic? Unfortunately there is considerable confusion among cultural anthropologists on this point, 1 so we must deal with it at once before turning to primitive cultures themselves.
