http://anthropik.com/2005/05/the-savage-mirror/ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:21:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://anthropik.com/2005/05/the-savage-mirror/#comment-8225 Ancient History » The Anthropik Network Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:47:10 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/05/the-savage-mirror/#comment-8225 [...] Vintage Victorian racism always makes a comeback when we find ourselves unpleasantly reminded of those few scraps of indigenous people that we still haven't completely wiped off the map. The last time Anthropik covered this story, in Steve Thomas's post, Endgame for the Bushmen, an anonymous guest who came on to chastise us for not caring enough about the Bushmen to have been alive during the 1970s had this to say: BTW, as I understand it, the Kalahari 'bushmen' (3 'tribes' actually) are most-closely genetically related to the Australian Aborigines and to the Inuit of the arctic. Some 'experts' assert that these are isolatied surviving populations of proto-humans (not "identical" species as us) but, if true, I prefer to believe 'we' are actually the proto-humans and that they (might have been) the truely sapient apes. [...] […] Vintage Victorian racism always makes a comeback when we find ourselves unpleasantly reminded of those few scraps of indigenous people that we still haven’t completely wiped off the map. The last time Anthropik covered this story, in Steve Thomas’s post, Endgame for the Bushmen, an anonymous guest who came on to chastise us for not caring enough about the Bushmen to have been alive during the 1970s had this to say: BTW, as I understand it, the Kalahari ‘bushmen’ (3 ‘tribes’ actually) are most-closely genetically related to the Australian Aborigines and to the Inuit of the arctic. Some ‘experts’ assert that these are isolatied surviving populations of proto-humans (not “identical” species as us) but, if true, I prefer to believe ‘we’ are actually the proto-humans and that they (might have been) the truely sapient apes. […]

]]> http://anthropik.com/2005/05/the-savage-mirror/#comment-1873 Finally, Some Good News » The Anthropik Network Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:56:33 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/05/the-savage-mirror/#comment-1873 [...] Many - dare I say most - people view missionaries as generally good. Even non-Christians believe that primitive savages lead painful, filthy, horrible lives. Although one may not necessarily agree with the religious beliefs the missionaries spread, one may nonetheless support them - at least intellectually - because of the work they're doing to help build houses and irrigation networks. [...] […] Many - dare I say most - people view missionaries as generally good. Even non-Christians believe that primitive savages lead painful, filthy, horrible lives. Although one may not necessarily agree with the religious beliefs the missionaries spread, one may nonetheless support them - at least intellectually - because of the work they’re doing to help build houses and irrigation networks. […]

]]> http://anthropik.com/2005/05/the-savage-mirror/#comment-1305 The Fabrication of Little Tree » The Anthropik Network Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:28:40 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/05/the-savage-mirror/#comment-1305 [...] Throughout the entire book, natives are depicted as childishly innocent, naive, having a mystical connection to nature, etc. While this "Noble Savage" stereotype has, as of late, been used to deify Native Americans, it was originally created to justify colonialism. It depicted the civilized as loving, caring parents to the primitives, who couldn't take care of themselves. Aside from being noble, Carter's Cherokee are often just plain savage, as demonstrated by the following passage (p.44): The fever for combat, that marked his breed, was running high. There was no fear, only exhultation, as the horse moved fast and light over the ground, as the wind whipped a storm in his face. Exhultation that brought the rebel Indian yell rumbling from his chest and out his throat, screaming, savage. [...] […] Throughout the entire book, natives are depicted as childishly innocent, naive, having a mystical connection to nature, etc. While this “Noble Savage” stereotype has, as of late, been used to deify Native Americans, it was originally created to justify colonialism. It depicted the civilized as loving, caring parents to the primitives, who couldn’t take care of themselves. Aside from being noble, Carter’s Cherokee are often just plain savage, as demonstrated by the following passage (p.44): The fever for combat, that marked his breed, was running high. There was no fear, only exhultation, as the horse moved fast and light over the ground, as the wind whipped a storm in his face. Exhultation that brought the rebel Indian yell rumbling from his chest and out his throat, screaming, savage. […]

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