The primitive world and its transformations

by Redfield, Robert

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Title Statements

Full title :The primitive world and its transformations / by Robert Redfield.

Summary

The Primitive World and Its Transformations is a book in which the readers of Ethics, as well as others concerned with problems of morality, are likely to be interested. Professor Redfield considers certain of the changes resulting in society and behavior from the advent of civilization and seeks to understand something of what these have meant for humanity as a whole. There are six chapters in the book. The first chapter describes human living prior to civilization, and the second states what happened to societies subsequent to civilization. The third chapter distinguishes between the technical and the moral orders, refers to the disintegration of local moral orders and the evolution of more inclusive social orders under the influence of civilization, and indicates the rise of ideas as historical forces having a direct effect upon the moral order. The fifth chapter is concerned with the development of the proposition that man is competent to engage in the deliberate control of himself. The sixth chapter is devoted to certain aspects of cultural relativity. -- From http://www.jstor.org/stable/2378589 (Oct. 22, 2012).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1989, 1953.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cornell University Press
Place of Publication:Ithaca, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:1989, 1953.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 185 pages ; : 19 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0801490286, 9780801490286
oclc:ocm40994965
LC Classification:CB151
Dewey Decimal:301

Introduction ---- I. human society before the urban revolution --- II. Later histories of the folk societies --- III. Civilization and the moral order --- IV. Primitive world view and civilization --- VI. The transformation of ethical judgment.