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Sick Societies

by Robert B. Edgerton · 1992

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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.

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adult
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medium · 288 pages

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