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 3

Cannibals and the Golden Age

Lery, Jean de

1578                History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America. Janet Whatley, tr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Read Chapters 8 and 15-16.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.

1588a              “Of the Caniballes.” In The Essays of Michael, Lord of Montaigne Book 1 Vol. 2: 32-54. John Florio, tr. London: J. M. Dent, 1897.

1588b              “Of Coaches.” In The Essays of Michael, Lord of Montaigne Book 3 Vol. 5: 186-221. John Florio, tr. London: J. M. Dent, 1897.

Recommended: Other historical and critical studies

Greenblatt, Stephen Jay.

1991                Marvelous possessions : the wonder of the New World. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Read Introduction and Chapter 2.

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

 

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