Word: rousseauist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frazer demolished the Rousseauist notion that primitive man was blithe and free. Harassed by taboos at every hand, besieged by demons, snarled in ritual, the savage was far more vexed than civilized man with traffic lights, time clocks, income taxes. And Frazer revealed that the customs and rituals of civilization are forest-rooted, that vestiges of magic are everywhere...
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