num_pages: 278
description: 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.
language: English
title: Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony
titlecomplete: Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony
genres: Social Science, Anthropology, History, Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Society, Evolution
ratings_count: 331
publisher: Free Press