Political correctness in social anthropology has made the terms primitive society, social evolution and even human nature unacceptable, and removed the possibil
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "pub
The Reinvention of Primitive Society critiques ideas about the origins of society and religion that have been hotly debated since Darwin. Tracing interpretation
Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how