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Sick Societies

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

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  • E-book

Duration:

  • 307 pages

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English

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  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Society

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    Robert B. Edgerton

    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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