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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... least a considerable share of a lifetime could be spent explor- ing the scholarly literature on him and his ideas . Maurice Cranston ( 1982 , 1991 ) provides the best available multivolume biography , still unfinished , that ...
... least a considerable share of a lifetime could be spent explor- ing the scholarly literature on him and his ideas . Maurice Cranston ( 1982 , 1991 ) provides the best available multivolume biography , still unfinished , that ...
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... least hint that non- European peoples might have any good qualities whatsoever , seems to qualify as " romantic naturalism , " to be labeled as yet a further instance of belief in the " Noble Savage . " One can , of course , argue for ...
... least hint that non- European peoples might have any good qualities whatsoever , seems to qualify as " romantic naturalism , " to be labeled as yet a further instance of belief in the " Noble Savage . " One can , of course , argue for ...
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... least some sort of virtual can- nibals (fig. 2). Likewise, where the full litany of characteristics of the Golden Age (see below) was incomplete, almost any combination of its emblematic feature, nudity, with evocations of goodness and ...
... least some sort of virtual can- nibals (fig. 2). Likewise, where the full litany of characteristics of the Golden Age (see below) was incomplete, almost any combination of its emblematic feature, nudity, with evocations of goodness and ...
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... least to the beginning of the seventeenth century, where they appear together in Lescarbot's (1609c) ethnography of the In- dians of eastern Canada. Lescarbot was a lawyer who, after having suffered setbacks in his Parisian legal ...
... least to the beginning of the seventeenth century, where they appear together in Lescarbot's (1609c) ethnography of the In- dians of eastern Canada. Lescarbot was a lawyer who, after having suffered setbacks in his Parisian legal ...
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... least equally great in the discovery of the " savages " who inhabited his new world : " Having never seen any be- fore , I did admire , at the first sight , their fair shape and form of visage " ( 1609c : 84 ) . The attraction the ...
... least equally great in the discovery of the " savages " who inhabited his new world : " Having never seen any be- fore , I did admire , at the first sight , their fair shape and form of visage " ( 1609c : 84 ) . The attraction the ...
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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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