ANTHROP 3F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ethnocentrism, Adam Kuper, Multilinear Map
23 Apr 2018
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The chapter titled the idea of primitive society was written by adam kuper in his 1988 book the invention of primitive society: transformations of an illusion. It seems that kuper"s goal in the chapter is to describe how anthropologists have thought about primitive society. It is evident that the idea of what is a primitive society has no official definition but is related to mentality, religion, art, politics, structure, etc. The term primitive society arose and has persisted since the 1860s and 1870s. At the time the ideas put forward by darwin were not widely accepted, instead people put more faith in the ideas of primitive society. The belief in primitive society meant that people believed in the history of progress. Primitive society, similarly to the advanced and modern society that was the west, also contained elements of culture like marriage, family, property, power, etc.
