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.
Format
Kindle
Seiten
298 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Mai 20, 2010
Verlag
Simon & Schuster
Ausgaben
2 Ausgaben