Dark Vanishings
Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930
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Word Count
62,000 words, Guess
Page Count
248 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7849302M
- ISBN-139780801488764
- ISBN-100801488761
- OCLC Control Number51755871
- OCLC Control Numberdarkvanishingsdi00bran
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003004117
- Goodreads889930
- LibraryThing3104364
Classifications
- LCCGN380.B73 2003
Description
Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history. -- from back cover.
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