The Story of the Twentieth Century “Primitive” Mentality Debate and the Politics of Hyperrationality
by
Bradley W. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Throughout the twentieth century, Western thinkers engaged in a politically charged, often highly personal and acrimonious debate over the mental and rational capacity of people from traditional nonliterate societies. The issue was a question of whether or not humanity was, at bottom, psychologically...