The Primitive World an its Transformations

Minder exemplaar. Paperback, (Roest)vlekjes op de boeksneden. Sociology and Anthropology. In this book, civilization is considered as a modification and transformation of primitive life. In explaining the human career, this distinguished anthropologist has stressed ideological and ethical factors, thus redressing the usual balance of emphasis on technological and economic influences. With penetration and compassion, he has provided a view of the passage from pre-civilized to civilized life as a continuous process of breaking down and rebuilding the moral order. How new patterns of behavior and new ways of think and of doing things have come into being is clearly shown.