Download or read book The Reinvention of Primitive Society written by Adam Kuper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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”.
Download or read book On Primitive Society written by C.R.Hallpike and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Structure and Function in Primitive Society Essays and Addresses written by A R 1881-1955 Radcliffe-Brown and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Invention of Primitive Society written by Adam Kuper and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Primitive Culture written by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sick Societies written by Robert B. Edgerton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies written by Carol F. Jopling and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion in Primitive Society written by Edward Norbeck and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of religious beliefs and practices in societies ; includes references to Aboriginal Australians.
Download or read book The Savage in Literature written by Brian V. Street and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Mind of Primitive Man written by Franz Boas and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1938.
Download or read book The Role of the Aged in Primitive Society written by Leo William Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples written by Margaret Mead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many respects, this volume is a pioneer effort in anthropological literature. It remains firmly part of the genre of cooperative research, or "interdisciplinary research," though at the time of its original publication that phrase had yet to be coined. Additionally, this work is more theoretical in nature than a faithful anthropological record, as all the essays were written in New York City, on a low budget, and without fieldwork. The significance of these studies lies in the fact that Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples was the first attempt to think about the very complex problems of cultural character and social structure, coupled with a meticulous execution of comparative study.
Download or read book The Primitive Mind and Modern Civilization written by Charles Roberts Aldrich and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Law of Primitive Man written by E. Adamson Hoebel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work in the anthropology of law offers ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties treated as law among nonliterate peoples. The heart of the book is an analysis of the law of five societies: the Eskimo; the Ifugao; the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne tribes; the Trobriand Islanders; and the Ashanti.
Download or read book Primitive Art Society written by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press, for Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. This book was released on 1973 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a conference held at Burg Wartenstein from 27 June to 5 July 1967.
Download or read book In Search of the Primitive written by Stanley Diamond and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and self-critical, critical of the discipline of anthropology and of the civilization that produced that discipline. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilizations as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization. He rejects the associations which have been made in the ideology of our civilization, consciously or unconsciously, between Western dominance and progress, imperialism and evolution, evolution and progress.
Download or read book Primitive Society written by Edwin Sidney Hartland and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
