The Myth of the Noble Savage /

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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 Ellings...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellingson, Terry Jay
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Culturele antropologie.
Mythevorming.
De edele wilde.
Literatur
Anthropologie
Edler Wilder
Racism in anthropology.
Noble savage stereotype.
Noble savage stereotype in literature.
Anthropology > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
Racisme en anthropologie > Histoire.
Bon sauvage dans la litterature.
Bon sauvage.
Anthropologie > Philosophie.
Racism in anthropology > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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