The Reinvention of Primitive Society
The Reinvention of Primitive Society

Author: Adam Kuper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1351852965

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Adam Kuper’s iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of “primitive society” is a western myth. The “primitive” is imagined as the opposite of the “civilised”. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change, so the image of primitive society must be adjusted. By way of fascinating account of classic texts in anthropology, ancient history and law, Kuper reveals how this myth underpinned academic research and inspired political programmes. Its ancestry is traced back to classical western beliefs about barbarians and savages, and Kuper also tackles the latest version of the myth, the idea of a global identity of “indigenous peoples”. The Reinvention of Primitive Society is a key text in the history of anthropology, and will interest anyone who has puzzled about the very idea of “primitive society” – and so, by implication, about “civilisation”.

The Invention of Primitive Society
The Invention of Primitive Society

Author: Adam Kuper

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780415009034

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Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society.

Structure and Function in Primitive Society, Essays and Addresses
Structure and Function in Primitive Society, Essays and Addresses

Author: A R 1881-1955 Radcliffe-Brown

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780343282691

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On Primitive Society
On Primitive Society

Author: C.R.Hallpike

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-08-12

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1456783793

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Political correctness in social anthropology has made the terms primitive society, social evolution and even human nature unacceptable, and removed the possibility of open academic debate about them. Written from the perspective of a lifetimes research, this collection of papers takes a hard look at these taboos, and challenges some fundamental assumptions of post-modern thinking. Including some new material on memetics, evolutionary psychology and Darwinian theory in the social sciences, this collection provides a long-overdue assessment of some key topics in modern anthropology.

The Social Organization of the Western Apache
The Social Organization of the Western Apache

Author: Grenville Goodwin

Publisher: Century Collection

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780816535231

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Presents an in-depth historical reconstruction and a detailed ethnographic account of the Western Apache culture based on firsthand observations made over a span of nearly ten years in the field The Social Organization of the Western Apache is still one of the most comprehensive descriptions of the social life of an American Indian tribe. Grenville Goodwin knew the Western Apache better than any other ethnographer who ever lived. And he wrote about them from the conviction that his knowledge was important--not only for specialists interested in the tribes of the Southwest, but for all anthropologists concerned with the structure and operation of primitive social systems.

Sick Societies
Sick Societies

Author: Robert B. Edgerton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1451602324

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Author and scholar Robert 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.