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...

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Main Author:	Ellingson, Terry Jay
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Subjects:	Anthropology > Philosophy. Noble savage stereotype. Noble savage stereotype in literature. Racism in anthropology > History. Anthropologie > Philosophie. Stéréotype du noble sauvage. Stéréotype du noble sauvage dans la littérature. Racisme en anthropologie > Histoire. Noble savage stereotype in literature Noble savage stereotype Anthropology > Philosophy Racism in anthropology Edler Wilder Anthropologie Literatur De edele wilde. Mythevorming. Culturele antropologie. Racism. Noble savage. Anthropology. Noble savage in literature. History
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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.