The Myth of the Noble SavageUniversity of California Press, 2001 M01 16 - 467 páginas In this important and original study, the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is easily refuted. The myth that persists is that there was ever, at any time, widespread belief in the nobility of savages. The fact is, as Ter Ellingson shows, the humanist eighteenth century actually avoided the term because of its association with the feudalist-colonialist mentality that had spawned it 150 years earlier. The Noble Savage reappeared in the mid-nineteenth century, however, when the "myth" was deliberately used to fuel anthropology's oldest and most successful hoax. Ellingson's narrative follows the career of anthropologist John Crawfurd, whose political ambition and racist agenda were well served by his construction of what was manifestly a myth of savage nobility. Generations of anthropologists have accepted the existence of the myth as fact, and Ellingson makes clear the extent to which the misdirection implicit in this circumstance can enter into struggles over human rights and racial equality. His examination of the myth's influence in the late twentieth century, ranging from the World Wide Web to anthropological debates and political confrontations, rounds out this fascinating study. |
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... Indians decides to return to civi- lization, his "imagination drew, on this side, fraud, hypocrisy and sordid ... Indian Archipelago, saves the life of a Pirate, a man of savage but noble nature" (Fairchild 1928: 309). Here, despite the ...
... Indians decides to return to civi- lization, his "imagination drew, on this side, fraud, hypocrisy and sordid ... Indian Archipelago, saves the life of a Pirate, a man of savage but noble nature" (Fairchild 1928: 309). Here, despite the ...
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... Indians exercised on Lescarbot was certainly en- hanced by the complex circumstances under which he encountered them . Far from being a first encounter with a pristine culture , the French - Indian relationship at the time of ...
... Indians exercised on Lescarbot was certainly en- hanced by the complex circumstances under which he encountered them . Far from being a first encounter with a pristine culture , the French - Indian relationship at the time of ...
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... Indians for control of trade with transient Europeans and the initial French settlers was already intense. Some of the Indians began to appreciate the advantages of stabler, longer-term relationships with particular groups of Europeans ...
... Indians for control of trade with transient Europeans and the initial French settlers was already intense. Some of the Indians began to appreciate the advantages of stabler, longer-term relationships with particular groups of Europeans ...
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... Indian viewpoint. Rather than Lescarbot's legalist vision of a French-style judge with ab- solute power over the subjects of the monarch he represents, the Indians probably placed de Monts more in the role of a tribal mediator in a ...
... Indian viewpoint. Rather than Lescarbot's legalist vision of a French-style judge with ab- solute power over the subjects of the monarch he represents, the Indians probably placed de Monts more in the role of a tribal mediator in a ...
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... Indians; and in so doing, he reveals something of the economic strategies and practices that facilitated the cooperation of French and Indians: For our allowance, we had peas, beans, rice, prunes, raisins, dry cod, and salt flesh ...
... Indians; and in so doing, he reveals something of the economic strategies and practices that facilitated the cooperation of French and Indians: For our allowance, we had peas, beans, rice, prunes, raisins, dry cod, and salt flesh ...
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ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE ON SAVAGES FROM LESCARBOT TO ROUSSEAU | 43 |
THE SAVAGE AFTER ROUSSEAU | 97 |
IV THE RETURN OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE | 233 |
V THE NOBLE SAVAGE MEETS THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURY | 329 |
Conclusion | 373 |
Notes | 389 |
References | 397 |
Index | 425 |
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