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Savage anxieties : the invention of western civilization

Summary: Presents an intellectual history of the West's bias against tribalism that explains how acts of war and dispossession have been justified in the name of civilization and have typically victimized tribal groups.

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  • ISBN: 9780230338760 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0230338763 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Homer and the Idea of the Savage : First Impressions -- The Legend of the Golden Age and the Idea of the Savage -- The Emergence of the Classical Idea of the Savage -- The Classical Idea of the Savage and the Invention of Western Philosophy -- The Idea of the Savage and the Rise of Roman Imperial Civilization -- Parallel Lives : The Idea of the Savage and the Decline of the Roman Empire -- The Medieval Christian Church's War on the Classical Idea of the Savage -- The Wild Man and the Medieval Christian Idea of the Savage -- The Renaissance Humanist Revival of the Classical Language of Savagery -- The Renaissance Discovery Era and the Idea of the Savage -- The Enlightenment Idea of the Savage and the Founders' First Indian Policy -- Savage Anxieties : Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century.
Subject: Indigenous peoples
Noble savage
Tribes
Primitive societies
Topic Heading: First Nations.
Aboriginal.

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  • 3 of 4 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
The Pas Campus Library GN 380 .W549 2012 (Text) 58500000728956 Stacks Volume hold Available -
Thompson Campus Library GN 380 .W549 2012 (Text) 58500000728949 Stacks Volume hold Available -
UCN/Norway House Public Library GN 380 .W549 2012 (Text) 58500000729053 Stacks Volume hold Available -

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