- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- 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 -
4 The Noble Savage Myth and Travel-Ethnographic Literature -
5 Savages and the Philosophical Travelers -
6 Rousseau's Critique of Anthropological Representations -
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 -
20 The Noble Savage and the World Wide Web -
21 The Ecologically Noble Savage -
22 The Makah Whale Hunt of 1999 - Conclusion
- References
- Index
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Participant Observation and the Picturesque Savage
Participant Observation and the Picturesque Savage
- Chapter:
- (p.169) 10 Participant Observation and the Picturesque Savage
- Source:
- The Myth of the Noble Savage
- Author(s):
Ter Ellingson
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
As ethnographic interest in North American Indians shifted from the Northeast to peoples farther to the West in the first half of the nineteenth century, the greatest excitement arose from the discovery of the nomadic hunting peoples of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territories. Innovations in ethnographic method came along with the new direction in ethnographic area. One such innovation was the practice of what anthropologists would later call participant observation, living for substantial periods with the people studied and taking part, as much as possible, in their way of life. Few had voluntarily undertaken it with the primary motivation of using it as a source of ethnographic information. Some saw the advantages of such an approach; and by the 1830s it was applied to American Indian ethnography by Charles Murray and George Catlin.
Keywords: nomadic hunting peoples, ethnographic information, American Indian ethnography, Charles Murray, George Catlin
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- 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 -
4 The Noble Savage Myth and Travel-Ethnographic Literature -
5 Savages and the Philosophical Travelers -
6 Rousseau's Critique of Anthropological Representations -
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 -
20 The Noble Savage and the World Wide Web -
21 The Ecologically Noble Savage -
22 The Makah Whale Hunt of 1999 - Conclusion
- References
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
