In Search Of The Primitive: A Critique Of Civilization (Routledge Classic Texts In Anthropology)

Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possi- bilities--a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. This brilliant, tough-minded book contains chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Lvi-Strauss. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilization as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization.

• | Author: Stanley Diamond
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 18, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 284 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 087855582X
• | ISBN-13: 9780878555826