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Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives by Marianna Torgovnick

9/14/22

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laplantelibrary | 1 other review | Sep 14, 2022 |

Gone Primitive by Marianna Torgovnick

This book introduced me to the concept of "primitivism" which didn't evoke something clear to me before I read Marianna Torgovnick.
It's such a disturbing book... You learn more about you when you thought you were going to learn about the strangers... But WE are the strangers.

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