Sick Societies by Robert B. Edgerton

Sick Societies

Robert B. Edgerton

288 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 cru...

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