Folk Ways Author:William Graham Sumner Savage or Civilized? Whi is it that what is criminal in one society is mandatory in another? . . . that manners of refinement in one group are shocking to another? . . . that one age of civilization looks back on an earlier age as uninformed, primitive, inhumane? These are some of the questions posed in this classic work. The author, a renown... more »ed scholar of his day, does an incredibly complete and comprehensive research into the cultures of primitive and civilized peoples, comparing group with group, institution with institution, century with century.« less