{ "item_title" : "Primitive Man as Philosopher", "item_author" : [" Paul Radin "], "item_description" : "When a modern historian desires to study the civilization of any people, he regards it as a necessary preliminary that he divests himself, so far as possible, of all prejudice and bias. He realizes that differences between cultures exist, but he does not feel that it is necessarily a sign of inferiority that a people differ in customs from his own. There seems, however, to be a limit to what an historian treats as legitimate difference, a limit not always easy to determine. Overall it may be said that he very naturally passes the same judgments that most of his fellow countrymen do. Hence, if some of the differences between admittedly civilized peoples often call forth unfavourable judgments or even provoke outbursts of horror, how much more must we expect this to be the case where the differences are of so fundamental a nature as those separating us from people whom we have been accustomed to call uncivilized. The term uncivilized is a very vague one, and it is spread over a vast medley of peoples, some of whom have comparatively simple customs and others extremely complex ones. Indeed, there can be said to be, but two characteristics possessed in common by all these peoples, the absence of a written language and the fact of original possession of the soil when the various civilized European and Asiatic nations encountered them. But among all aboriginal races appeared several customs which undoubtedly seemed exceedingly strange to their European and Asiatic conquerors. Some of these customs they had never heard of; others they recognized as similar to observances and beliefs existing among the more backward members of their own communities.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/44/372/699/1443726990_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "44.99", "online_price" : "44.99", "our_price" : "44.99", "club_price" : "44.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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