Primitive Man As Philosopher.

by Paul Radin and Ph.D. Radin, Paul

Book Overview

"Primitive Man as Philosopher" is influential anthropologist and ethnologist Paul Radin's enduringly relevant survey of an array of aboriginal cultures and belief systems, including those of the Winnebago, Oglala Sioux, Maori, Banda, the Buin of Melanesia, Tahitian, Hawaiian, Zuni, and Ewe. Radin examines the conditioning of thought and religion practiced among the members of each society and the freedom of individuals to deviate from the group and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486203921
• ISBN13: 9780486203928
• Release Date: January 1957
• Publisher: Dover Pubns
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.