In Search Of The Primitive: A Critique Of Civilization (routledge Classic Texts In Anthropology)
by Stanley Diamond /
2017 / English / PDF
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Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities―a
dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man
and the primitive peoples he studies.
Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities―a
dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man
and the primitive peoples he studies.In Search of the
Primitive
In Search of the
Primitive is a tough-minded book containing 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 Lévi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and
self-critical, critical of the discipline of anthropology and of
the civilization that produced that discipline. Diamond views the
anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his
own civilizations as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of
Western civilization. He rejects the associations which have been
made in the ideology of our civilization, consciously or
unconsciously, between Western dominance and progress,
imperialism and evolution, evolution and progress.
is a tough-minded book containing 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 Lévi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and
self-critical, critical of the discipline of anthropology and of
the civilization that produced that discipline. Diamond views the
anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his
own civilizations as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of
Western civilization. He rejects the associations which have been
made in the ideology of our civilization, consciously or
unconsciously, between Western dominance and progress,
imperialism and evolution, evolution and progress.
