I enjoyed the book but I'm not entirely sure what to think of it. The authors spend a lot of time saying how wrong mainstream anthropology is but frequently don't back up their assertions. They will present evidence that could have many interpretations and then weave in their opinion as the best conclusion without any reason except that it could be true. It feels like the authors read about Kandiaronk and built the rest of the book on this indigenous critique of the west.

Their main points are does society actually have to be the way it is, and has it always been this way? Even if some of their conclusions about specific events are wrong it made me think, and that makes it a good book.