Sick Societies
- Authors
- Edgerton, Robert B.
- Publisher
- Simon Schuster
- Tags
- history , sociology , science
- ISBN
- 9781451602326
- Date
- 1992-11-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.95 MB
- Lang
- en
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.