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In search of the primitive : a critique of civilization / Stanley Diamond ; foreword by Eric R. Wolf.

Title
In search of the primitive : a critique of civilization / Stanley Diamond ; foreword by Eric R. Wolf.
Author
Diamond, Stanley, 1922-
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Books; distributed by E. P. Dutton [New York, 1974]

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Additional Authors
Wolf, Eric R., 1923-1999
Description
xvi, 387 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Ethnology
  • Primitive societies
  • Philosophical anthropology
  • Cultural Evolution
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: civilization and progress -- The politics of field work -- Anthropology in question -- The search for the primitive -- Plato and the definition of the primitive -- The uses of the primitive -- Schizophrenia and civilization -- The rule of law versus the order of custom -- Job and the trickster -- The inauthenticity of anthropology? -- The myth of structuralism -- What history is.
ISBN
0878550453 087855582X (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^72082195^//r91
OCLC
  • 947478
  • SCSB-10375162
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library