Monograph No. 30
The Role of 'Primitive' Peoples in Identifying and Approaching Human Problems
2000
This monograph examines the urge to innovate and push out the frontiers of knowledge which has been a characteristic of human thought from man's earliest days. It shows how people - from the most 'primitive' to the most 'advanced' - have dealt with human problems in similar ways. This course, set so early in our evolution,has contributed not only to our survival - but to the capacity of the human mind to make startling conceptual leaps.