The myth of the noble savage / Ter Ellingson.

By:

Ellingson, Terry Jay

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520925922
0520925920
0585389799
9780585389790
1597347671
9781597347679
128275887X
9781282758872
9786612758874
6612758872

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Myth of the noble savage.DDC classification:

301/.01 21

LOC classification:

GN33 .E44 2001eb

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73.01
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Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Colonialism, Savages, and Terrorism; 2. Lescarbot's Noble Savage and Anthropological Science; 3. Poetic Nobility: Dryden, Heroism, and Savages; 4. The Noble Savage Myth and Travel-Ethnographic Literature; 5. Savages and the Philosophical Travelers; 6. Rousseau's Critique of Anthropological Representations; 7. The Ethnographic Savage from Rousseau to Morgan; 8. Scientists, the Ultimate Savage, and the Beast Within; 9. Philosophers and Savages; 10. Participant Observation and the Picturesque Savage.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-423) and index.

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.