Title: What they don't teach you in anthropology class
Product review: Jean-Jacques Rousseau would have it that man in his primitive or original condition is good and noble, and that he is flawed by over-sophisticated institutions. "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains". Dr. Edgerton dips his pen in acid and refutes that notion.The previous reviewers have commented accurately on the case Dr. Edgerton makes against adaptivism and cultural relativism.Dr. Edgerton is a strong corrective against the Margaret Mead's utopian philosophy. He demonstrates madness, fetishism, mutilation, cannibalism, irrational beliefs, and just plain evil in primitive societies.In contrast, western civilization does not look bad.
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