Noble Savages

Noble Savages

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  • Author: Napoleon A. Chagnon
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0684855119
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 544

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The Myth of the Noble Savage

The Myth of the Noble Savage

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  • Author: Ter Ellingson
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 0520226100
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 468

"In this study, the myth of the Noble Savage is a different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is easily refuted ..."


Noble Savages

Noble Savages

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  • Author: Sarah Watling
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9781784707170
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

*A NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR* *WINNER OF THE TONY LOTHIAN PRIZE* 'Interesting women have secrets. They also ought to have sisters.' From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out- surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly 'wild'. Rupert Brooke was said to be in love with all four of them; D. H. Lawrence thought they were frankly 'wrong'; Virginia Woolf found them curiously difficult to read. In this intimate, sweeping biography, Sarah Watling brings the sisters in from the margins, tracing lives that span colonial Jamaica, the bucolic life of Victorian progressives, the frantic optimism of Edwardian Cambridge, the bleakness of two world wars, and a host of evolving philosophies for life over the course of the twentieth century. Noble Savages is a compelling portrait of sisterhood in all its complexities, which rediscovers the lives of four extraordinary women within the varied fortunes of the feminism of their times, while illuminating the battles and ethics of biography itself.


Y̦anomamö, the Fierce People

Y̦anomamö, the Fierce People

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  • Author: Napoleon A. Chagnon
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780030710704
  • Category : Yanomamo Indians
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164


The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards, with Sketches of English and American Branches of the House of Savage

The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards, with Sketches of English and American Branches of the House of Savage

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  • Author: George Francis Savage-Armstrong
  • Publisher:
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 418


War Before Civilization

War Before Civilization

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  • Author: Lawrence H. Keeley
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199880700
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he denounces as "the pacification of the past"). Building on much fascinating archeological and historical research and offering an astute comparison of warfare in civilized and prehistoric societies, from modern European states to the Plains Indians of North America, War Before Civilization convincingly demonstrates that prehistoric warfare was in fact more deadly, more frequent, and more ruthless than modern war. To support this point, Keeley provides a wide-ranging look at warfare and brutality in the prehistoric world. He reveals, for instance, that prehistorical tactics favoring raids and ambushes, as opposed to formal battles, often yielded a high death-rate; that adult males falling into the hands of their enemies were almost universally killed; and that surprise raids seldom spared even women and children. Keeley cites evidence of ancient massacres in many areas of the world, including the discovery in South Dakota of a prehistoric mass grave containing the remains of over 500 scalped and mutilated men, women, and children (a slaughter that took place a century and a half before the arrival of Columbus). In addition, Keeley surveys the prevalence of looting, destruction, and trophy-taking in all kinds of warfare and again finds little moral distinction between ancient warriors and civilized armies. Finally, and perhaps most controversially, he examines the evidence of cannibalism among some preliterate peoples. Keeley is a seasoned writer and his book is packed with vivid, eye-opening details (for instance, that the homicide rate of prehistoric Illinois villagers may have exceeded that of the modern United States by some 70 times). But he also goes beyond grisly facts to address the larger moral and philosophical issues raised by his work. What are the causes of war? Are human beings inherently violent? How can we ensure peace in our own time? Challenging some of our most dearly held beliefs, Keeley's conclusions are bound to stir controversy.


The Olivier Sisters

The Olivier Sisters

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  • Author: Sarah Watling
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0190867396
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 417

Centering the Olivier sisters in their own time, Watling presents a vivid and fascinating group portrait of sisters, sisterhood, and feminism in the early twentieth century


The Noble Savages

The Noble Savages

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  • Author: Bryan R. Wilson
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 9780520028159
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 152


From Savage to Citizen

From Savage to Citizen

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  • Author: Amy S. Wyngaard
  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • ISBN: 9780874138535
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 274

"Using methodologies derived from cultural studies, new historicism, and the history of ideas, Amy S. Wyngaard argues that changing ideas of individual, class, and national identity in the eighteenth century were elaborated around portrayals of the peasant."--BOOK JACKET.


Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines

Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines

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  • Author: Martin N. Nakata
  • Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
  • ISBN: 0855755482
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

Martin Nakata's book, Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines represents the most focussed and sustained Indigenous critique of anthropological knowledge yet published. It is impressive, rigorous, and sometimes poignant: a must-read for anyone concerned with the troubled interplay of Indigenous issues and academic institutions in Australia today. The book provides an alternative reading for those struggling at the contradictor and, ambiguous intersections of academia and Indigenous experience. In doing so it moves beyond the usual, criticisms of the disciplines which construct the way we have come to know and understand indigenous peoples. Nakata, a Torres Strait Islander academic, casts a critical gaze on the research conducted by the Cambridge Expedition in the late 1890s. Meticulously analysing the linguistic, physiological, psychological and anthropological testing conducted he offers an astute critique of the researchers' methodologies and interpretations.. He uses these insights to reveal the similar workings of recent knowledge production in Torres Strait education. In systematically deconstructing these knowledges, Nakata draws eloquently on both the Torres Strait Islander struggle and his own personal struggle to break free from imposed definitions, and reminds us that such intellectual journeys are highly personal and political. Nakata argues for the recognition of the complexity of the space Indigenous people now live in -- the cultural interface -- and proposes an alternative theoretical standpoint to account for Indigenous experience of this space.