The Myth of the Noble Savage

International Studies 498/Music 512 Seminar Winter 2004 1:30-3:50 Th, Music 212 http://faculty.washington.edu/ellingsn/Noble_Savage.html

Prof. Ter Ellingson 50 Music 543-7211 ellingsn@u.washington.edu

Readings - Week 4

Return of the Noble Savage: Ethnology, Anthropology, and Racism

Crawfurd, John

1859 “On the Conditions Which Favour, Retard, or Obstruct the Early Civilization of Man.” Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London N.S. 1 (1861): 154-77. [Given at ESL 4/20/1859]

Hunt, James

1863c “On the Negro’s Place in Nature.” Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London, 1863-4 1: 1-60.

Recommended: Other sources - Ethnology

Prichard, James Cowles

1843 The Natural History of Man. H. Bailliere. Read Sections 1-2, 50, 52-53, Conclusion 48, 50-53. (on reserve for Anth 430/Music 480)

Recommended: Other sources – Racist anthropology

Jeffries, John

1869 The Natural History of the Human Races. New York: Edward O. Jenkins. Read Introduction and Chapters 16-17 18. (on reserve for Anth 430/Music 480)

Recommended: Historical and critical studies

Stocking, George W., Jr.

1971 “What’s in a Name? The Origins of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1837-1871.” Man 6: 369-390.

1973 "From Chronology to Ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and British Anthropology, 1800-1850." In Prichard, Researches into the Physical History of Man, London: John and Arthur Arch; reprinted Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. ix-cx.

1987 Victorian anthropology. New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan. Read Chapter 7.

Additional sources: Colonial ideologies and ethnography (not on reserve)

Suzzallo General Stacks 572.09 H664e DUE 03-04-97 BEING REPAIRED Undergraduate General Stacks 572.09 H664e CHECK THE SHELVES

Copies of this handout are available at the Secretary’s office,
ç up ½ flight of stairs