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 2

Colonialism and the Noble Savage

Lescarbot, Marc

1609a              Nova Francia: A Description of Arcadia. P. Erondelle, tr. London 1609. Reprinted London: Routledge, 1928.

Read Book 2 Preface (pp. 145-6), Chapter 2 (on the “Tabagie,” 221-31), Ch. 16 (the body, 238-43), Ch. 20 (virtues & vices, 260-66), Ch. 21 (hunting, 267-76), Ch. 22 (hawking, 277-80, and Ch. 24 (the land, 292-306).

1609b              The History of New France. Third ed.. Paris: Adrian Perier, 1618. W. L. Grant, tr. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1907-1914. Reprint New York: Greenwood Press, 1968.

Read “To France”.

Dryden, John

1672                Almanzor and Almahide, or, The Conquest of Granada. London: Henry Herringman, 1672. In George Saintsbury, ed., John Dryden: (Three Plays) 1-174. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974.

Read Act 1, Scene 1; skim rest of play.

Recommended: Other historical and critical studies

Hodgen, Margaret T., 1890-.

1964                Early anthropology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Read Chapter 9.

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

Pagden, Anthony

1982                The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1987                The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1993                European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism. New Haven: Yale University Press.

1995                Lords of all the World: Ideologies of empire in Spain, Britain and France c. 1500-c. 1800. New Haven: Yale University Press.

 

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