Download or read book Sick Societies written by Robert B. Edgerton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and scholar Robert Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused, and misled.