Page 1 THE INVENTION OF PRIMITIVE SOCIETY Transformations of an Illusion Adam Kuper
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Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement
between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In …

NTHROPOLOGISTS are hard put to it when asked to recommend a book that shall give the
layman a brief summary of what is now known regarding their science as a whole or any one …

This article shows the empirical, theoretical, and practical, and practical obsolescence of the
concept" primitive" except in some most restricted sense, such as application to peoples and …

Central to the postmodern project in anthropology is its critique of science and the scientific
method, a critique which it shares with (because it was borrowed from) postmodernist …

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CULTURAL EVOLUTIONISTS speak as if there were a" mythopoeic," or myth-making, stage
of human thought in which primitive peoples lived. There is general agreement among …

In this essay I have taken issue with the view that a special kind of anthropology is needed if
anthropologists are to make a contribution to the study of complex societies. This point of …

The role of social or cultural anthropology is to provide evidence for the reconstruction of the
history of mankind through the study of primitive people. Technological or intellectual …

Abstract The Human Enterprise presents a wide-ranging but well-integrated analysis of
contemporary anthropological theory. The author explains clearly and cogently how to …