The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth by Adam Kuper

The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth

Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology

Adam Kuper

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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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