{"product_id":"the-myth-of-the-noble-savage-9780520226104","title":"The Myth of the Noble Savage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study where the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by many over the years. It refutes the concept of the Noble Savage being first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the 'natural' life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Preface \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e I. The Birth of the Noble Savage\u003cbr\u003e 1. Colonialism, Savages, and Terrorism \u003cbr\u003e 2. Lescarbot’s Noble Savage and Anthropological Science \u003cbr\u003e 3. Poetic Nobility: Dryden, Heroism, and Savages \u003cbr\u003e II. Ambiguous Nobility: Ethnographic Discourse on “Savages” From Lescarbot to Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Noble Savage Myth and Travel-Ethnographic Literature \u003cbr\u003e 5. Savages and the Philosophical Travelers \u003cbr\u003e 6. Rousseau’s Critique of Anthropological Representations \u003cbr\u003e III. Discursive Oppositions:The “Savage” After Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Ethnographic Savage from Rousseau to Morgan \u003cbr\u003e 8. Scientists, the Ultimate Savage, and the Beast Within \u003cbr\u003e 9. Philosophers and Savages \u003cbr\u003e 10. Participant Observation and the Picturesque Savage \u003cbr\u003e 11. Popular Views of the Savage \u003cbr\u003e 12. The Politics of Savagery\u003cbr\u003e IV. The Return of the Noble Savage\u003cbr\u003e 13. Race, Mythmaking, and the Crisis in Ethnology \u003cbr\u003e 14. Hunt’s Racist Anthropology \u003cbr\u003e 15. The Hunt-Crawfurd Alliance \u003cbr\u003e 16. The Coup of 1858–1860 \u003cbr\u003e 17. The Myth of the Noble Savage \u003cbr\u003e 18. Crawfurd and the Breakup of the Racist Alliance \u003cbr\u003e 19. Crawfurd, Darwin, and the “Missing Link” \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Miscegenation Hoax \u003cbr\u003e V. The Noble Savage Meets the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Noble Savage and the World Wide Web\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Ecologically Noble Savage \u003cbr\u003e 22. The Makah Whale Hunt of 1999 \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402813907287,"sku":"9780520226104","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520226104.jpg?v=1730481580","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-myth-of-the-noble-savage-9780520226104","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}