Name: Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense About Primitive Society
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Author: Hallpike, C. R.
ISBN: 9789527065556

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Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense About Primitive Society

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Physical Book

Author

C. R. Hallpike

Publisher

Castalia House

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

206

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9789527065556

Synopsis "Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense About Primitive Society "

Dr. Hallpike spent his first ten years as an anthropologist living with mountain tribes in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea and writing up his research for publication. He learned that primitive societies are very different from our modern industrialised societies and that it takes a considerable amount study to understand how they work. But since all Man's ancestors used to live in a similar manner, understanding these societies is essential to understanding the human race itself, especially when speculating about our prehistoric ancestors in East Africa. Unfortunately a wide variety of journalists and science writers, historians, linguists, biologists, and especially evolutionary psychologists erroneously believe they are qualified to write about primitive societies without knowing much about them. The result is that many of their superficial speculations have about as much scientific credibility as The Flintstones. The various critical studies contained in Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense about Primitive Society examine some of the most popular of these speculations and evaluate their scientific merit. Among the learned fools whose works are critiqued are: Yuval Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Emma Byrne's Swearing is Good For You René Girard's theory of learned behavior William Arens's The Man-Eating Myth Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar

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