Gone Primitive
Subtitle: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 13, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780226808321
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; General; Semiotics & Theory; Social Science / General; Sociology; 20th century; Arts; Arts, Modern; Primitivism in art; Psychological aspects; Literary Criticism
First sentence: They exist for us in a cherished series of dichotomies: by turns gentle, in tune with nature, paradisal, ideal-or violent, in need of control; what we should emulate or, alternately, what we should fear; noble savages or cannibals.