Sick Societies

ISBN-13:	9780029089255
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication date:	11/02/1992
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	552,543
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.10(d)

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.