Description: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction I. The Birth of the Noble Savage 1. Colonialism, Savages, and Terrorism 2. Lescarbot's Noble Savage and Anthropological Science 3. Poetic Nobility: Dryden, Heroism, and Savages II. Ambiguous Nobility: Ethnographic Discourse on "Savages" From Lescarbot to Rousseau 4. The Noble Savage Myth and Travel-Ethnographic Literature 5. Savages and the Philosophical Travelers 6. Rousseau's Critique of Anthropological Representations III. Discursive Oppositions:The "Savage" After Rousseau 7. The Ethnographic Savage from Rousseau to Morgan 8. Scientists, the Ultimate Savage, and the Beast Within 9. Philosophers and Savages 10. Participant Observation and the Picturesque Savage 11. Popular Views of the Savage 12. The Politics of Savagery IV. The Return of the Noble Savage 13. Race, Mythmaking, and the Crisis in Ethnology 14. Hunt's Racist Anthropology 15. The Hunt-Crawfurd Alliance 16. The Coup of 1858-1860 17. The Myth of the Noble Savage 18. Crawfurd and the Breakup of the Racist Alliance 19. Crawfurd, Darwin, and the "Missing Link" Epilogue: The Miscegenation Hoax V. The Noble Savage Meets the Twenty-First Century 20. The Noble Savage and the World Wide Web 21. The Ecologically Noble Savage 22. The Makah Whale Hunt of 1999 Conclusion Notes References Index

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