The Myth of the Noble Savage
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780520226104
Subjects: Ethnography; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Philosophy; Anthropology - Physical; Social Science; Sociology; Racism in anthropology; Anthropology - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology; Noble savage; Noble savage in literature
First sentence: European ideas of the "savage" grew out of an imaginative fusion of classical mythology with the new descriptions that were beginning to be conceived by scientifically minded writers as "observations" of foreign peoples by Renaissance travel-ethnographic writers.