Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony

Type

Book

Authors

Edgerton ( Robert B. Edgerton )

ISBN 10

0029089255

ISBN 13

9780029089255

Tags

Social Sciences, General, Sociology

Description

Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused and misled.

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