Waubonsee Community College

The myth of the noble savage, Ter Ellingson

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-423) and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The myth of the noble savage

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Ter Ellingson

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