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Anthropology

wnylib

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1. True. The "noble savage" notion is just as

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 3, 2019, 05:41 PM

Dec 2019

bigoted as the "just plain savage" view of these people.

Bottom line - they are people, with a range of behaviors similar to our own that we see more easily in others than in ourselves.

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