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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... Critique of Anthropological Representations discursive oppositions: the “savage” after rousseau 45 64 80 7. The Ethnographic Savage from Rousseau to Morgan 99 8. Scientists, the Ultimate Savage, and the Beast Within 126 9. Philosophers ...
... Critique of Anthropological Representations discursive oppositions: the “savage” after rousseau 45 64 80 7. The Ethnographic Savage from Rousseau to Morgan 99 8. Scientists, the Ultimate Savage, and the Beast Within 126 9. Philosophers ...
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... critique and offer an expose of an- other " myth , " the existence of Savages who were really noble . The pur- ported critique typically examines ethnographic or theoretical writings on " savage " peoples to problematize any potential ...
... critique and offer an expose of an- other " myth , " the existence of Savages who were really noble . The pur- ported critique typically examines ethnographic or theoretical writings on " savage " peoples to problematize any potential ...
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... critique and expose as disproof of the "myth"; but the critique and the expose were themselves a deliberate mythological construction, projected at a particular time in the history of anthropology for a specific political purpose. It is ...
... critique and expose as disproof of the "myth"; but the critique and the expose were themselves a deliberate mythological construction, projected at a particular time in the history of anthropology for a specific political purpose. It is ...
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... critique of the rhetoric of no- bility in the introduction to part 2, with discussions of particular critical is- sues raised in conjunction with the discussions of specific works through- out parts 2 and 3. Obviously, then, this is a ...
... critique of the rhetoric of no- bility in the introduction to part 2, with discussions of particular critical is- sues raised in conjunction with the discussions of specific works through- out parts 2 and 3. Obviously, then, this is a ...
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... critique of the "later" one. Assuming that most of you share my interest in understanding the de- velopment of a discursive exchange on the Noble Savage, which entails un- derstanding who said what and when, I have chosen to render the ...
... critique of the "later" one. Assuming that most of you share my interest in understanding the de- velopment of a discursive exchange on the Noble Savage, which entails un- derstanding who said what and when, I have chosen to render the ...
Contenido
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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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