The myth of the noble savage

The myth of the noble savage /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellingson, Terry Jay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Crawfurd, John, > 1783-1868 > Influence.
Crawford, John > Influence.
Anthropology > Philosophy
Noble savage stereotype
Noble savage stereotype in literature
Racism in anthropology > History.
Anthropologie > Philosophie.
Bon sauvage.
Bon sauvage dans la littérature.
Racisme en anthropologie > Histoire.
Racism in anthropology
De edele wilde.
Mythevorming.
Culturele antropologie.
Edler Wilder.
Anthropologie.
Literatur.
History
Table of Contents:
  • Colonialism, savages, and terrorism
  • Lescarbot's noble savage and anthropological science
  • Poetic nobility: Dryden, heroism and savages
  • The noble savage myth and travel-ethnographic literature
  • Savages and the philosophical travelers
  • Rousseau's critique of anthropological representations
  • The ethnographic savage from Rousseau to Morgan
  • Scientists, the ultimate savage, and the beast within
  • Philosophers and savages
  • Participant observation and the picturesque savage
  • Popular views of the savage
  • The politics of savagery
  • Race, mythmaking, and the crisis in ethnology
  • Hunt's racist anthropology
  • The Hunt-Crawfurd alliance
  • The coup of 1858-1860
  • The myth of the noble savage
  • Crawfurd and the breakup of the racist alliance
  • Crawfurd, Darwin, and the 'missing link'
  • The noble savage and the world wide web
  • The ecologically noble savage
  • The Makah whale hunt of 1999.

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