The myth of the noble savage /
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...
| Основен автор: | Ellingson, Terry Jay. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2001.
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Print version::
Myth of the noble savage. |
Съдържание:
- 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.