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The Myth of the Noble Savage

Ter Ellingson

In this important and original study, the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is e...

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Behind the Bastards

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Behind the Bastards

The book explores the origins of the term "noble savage" and how it was first attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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What Ter Ellingson, a historian, discovered, or rather explored in his book The Myth of the Noble Savage, is that the term was coined over a century before Rousseau's birth by a French lawyer-ethnogra...

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 78

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 78

The book explores the origins of the term "noble savage" and how it was first attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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What Ter Ellingson, a historian, discovered, or rather explored in his book The Myth of the Noble Savage, is that the term was coined over a century before Rousseau's birth by a French lawyer-ethnographer named Marc Lescarbut.

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