Table of Contents

Introduction , Romantic Primitivism , The New Stone Age , Designer Tribalism , Enter the Noble Savage , The Triumph of the Litterateur , Academic Primitivism , What Karl Polanyi Found in Dahomey , The Book of Isaiah , Karl Popper in New Zealand , Civilization and Its Malcontents , Why Cultures Succeed or Fail , Civilization and Its Malcontents , The Four Stages of Noble Savagery

About the Author

Roger Sandall is a writer who recently retired as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia.