Savage Anxieties : The Invention of Western Civilization

by Williams

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9780230338760

ISBN10:

0230338763

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Hardcover

Pub. Date:

8/21/2012

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Palgrave Macmillan

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From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of violence and dispossession have all been justified by citing civilization's opposition to these differences represented by the tribe. Robert Williams, award winning author, legal scholar, and member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, proposes a wide-ranging reexamination of the history of the Western world, told from the perspective of civilization's war on tribalism as a way of life. Williams shows us how what we thought we knew about the rise of Western civilization over the tribe is in dire need of reappraisal.

Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Homer and the Idea of the Savage: First Impressions	p. 11
The Legend of the Golden Age and the Idea of the Savage	p. 31
The Emergence of the Classical Idea of the Savage	p. 49
The Classical Idea of the Savage and the Invention of Western Philosophy	p. 67
The Idea of the Savage and the Rise of Roman Imperial Civilization	p. 83
Parallel Lives: The Idea of the Savage and the Decline of the Roman Empire	p. 103
The Medieval Christian Church's War on the Classical Idea of the Savage	p. 121
The Wild Man and the Medieval Christian Idea of the Savage	p. 139
The Renaissance Humanist Revival of the Classical Language of Savagery	p. 159
The Renaissance Discovery Era and the Idea of the Savage	p. 179
The Enlightenment Idea of the Savage and the Founders' First Indian Policy	p. 197
Savage Anxieties: Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century	p. 219
Notes	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 259
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