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224 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781138282643
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 16 February 2017
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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 im...
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224 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781138282643
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 16 February 2017
Description
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 im...