towards violence has a genetic basis. Anarcho-primitivists, such as the philosopher John Zerzan, rely upon a strong ethical dualism between Anarcho-primitivism and civilization; hence, "life before domestication [and] agriculture was, in fact, largely one of leisure, intimacy with nature, sensual wisdom, sexual equality, and health." Zerzan's claims about the moral superiority of primitive societies are based on a certain reading of the works of anthropologists, such as Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee, wherein the anthropologic category of primitive society is restricted to hunter-gatherer societies who have no domesticated animals or agriculture, e.g. the stable social hierarchy of the American Indians of the north-west North America, who live from fishing and foraging, is attributed to having domesticated dogs and the cultivation of tobacco, that animal husbandry and agriculture equal civilization. See also Racism in the work of Charles Dickens Essays (Montaigne) Exoticism Native Americans in German popular culture Native American hobbyism in Germany Neotribalism Objectification Orientalism Pelagianism Positive stereotype Stereotypes about indigenous peoples of North America Racial fetishism Romantic racism Virtuous pagan Feral child Wild man Human zoo Uncontacted peoples Isolationism Concepts: Cultural relativism Golden Age Master-slave dialectic Social progress State of nature Xenocentrism Cultural examples: The Blue Lagoon (novel) Brave New World A High Wind in Jamaica (novel) Legend of the Rainbow Warriors Lord of the Flies Magical Negro Plastic shaman References Informational notes Citations Further reading Barnett, Louise. Touched by Fire: the Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer. University of Nebraska Press [1986], 2006. Barzun, Jacques (2000). From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 282–294, and passim. Bataille, Gretchen, M. and Silet Charles L., editors. Introduction by Vine Deloria, Jr. The Pretend Indian: Images of Native Americans in the Movies. Iowa State University Press, 1980*Berkhofer, Robert F. "The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present" Boas, George ([1933] 1966). The Happy Beast in French Thought in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. Reprinted by Octagon Press in 1966. Boas, George ([1948] 1997). Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. Bordewich, Fergus M. "Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century" Bury, J.B. (1920). The Idea of Progress: an Inquiry into its Origins and Growth. (Reprint) New York: Cosimo Press, 2008. Edgerton, Robert (1992). Sick Societies: