Sick Societies

Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony

By: Robert B. Edgerton

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eBook | 15 June 2010

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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.