Savage Anxieties

The Invention of Western Civilization

By: Robert A. Williams

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Hardcover | 21 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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. Historical conflicts between the Western world and tribalism are said to be grounded in irreconcilable differences in culture, governing institutions, religion and worldview. 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. Starting from the foundations of Western political theory and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome to show how the West's war on tribalism influenced and shaped Christianity, the Renaissance and Enlightenment Eras, the African slave trade, Darwin's theory of evolution, the Vietnam War, and even today's environmental movement, Williams shows us how what we thought we knew about the rise of Western civilization over the tribe is in dire need of reappraisal.

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"Armed with guns, horses, and machines, European settlers relentlessly mowed down, pushed aside, and in some cases enslaved peaceful natives they found living in the new worlds they were overrunning. Reaching back to antiquity, they resurrected myths about one-eyed giants and other monsters to rationalize the harsh treatment they were visiting on Indians and Mexicans. Later, they would deploy very similar rhetorical strategies to justify extermination and enslavement in other parts of the world. The suspicion grows that Western agents are the savages and the peace-loving natives the superior race. Savage Anxieties explains how, like bad money driving out good, a savage society will win every time." --Richard Delgado, professor, Seattle University School of Law and author of Critical Race Theory

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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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