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The myth of the noble savage / Ter Ellingson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 445 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520925922
  • 0520925920
  • 0585389799
  • 9780585389790
  • 1597347671
  • 9781597347679
  • 128275887X
  • 9781282758872
  • 9786612758874
  • 6612758872
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Myth of the noble savage.DDC classification:
  • 301/.01 21
LOC classification:
  • GN33 .E44 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 73.01
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
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.

Print version record.

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.

English.

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