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Sick Societies

Sick Societies

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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: Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 11/02/1992
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.46w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780029089255

About the Author
Robert Edgerton, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of the department of anthropology at the University of California Los Angeles and the author of several books, including Like Lions They Fought, Sick Societies, and Warriors of the Rising Sun.

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