Author: Adam Kuper Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351852965 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 357
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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”.
Author: C.R.Hallpike Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1456783793 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 451
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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.
Author: Robert B. Edgerton Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451602324 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 472
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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.
Author: Adam Kuper Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415009034 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 276
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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.
Author: A R 1881-1955 Radcliffe-Brown Publisher: Franklin Classics ISBN: 9780343282691 Category : Languages : en Pages : 236
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Author: Brian V. Street Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317207459 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 201
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First published in 1975, this study is concerned with the representation of non-European people in English popular fiction in the period from 1858-1920. It examines the developments in thinking about people across the world and shows how they affected writers’ views of evolution, race, heredity and of the life of the so-called ‘primitive’ man. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature.
Author: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, for Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 332
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Based on a conference held at Burg Wartenstein from 27 June to 5 July 1967.
Author: Adam Kuper Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9780415357609 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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An expanded and radically revised new edition that is essential reading for those who are interested in anthropological theory and current post-colonial debates, or simply curious about the ways in which we systematically misunderstand other peoples.
Author: Adam Kuper
Author: C.R.Hallpike
Author: Robert B. Edgerton
Author: Adam Kuper
Author: A R 1881-1955 Radcliffe-Brown
Author: Edward Norbeck
Author: Carol F. Jopling
Author: Brian V. Street
Author: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Author: Adam Kuper