242 – The Dawn of The Dawn of Everything (w/ David Wengrow)
Srsly Wrong
The Origin of the Noble Savage Trope
In the 18 fifties, there was like this clique of races that took over the british ethnological society. They're the first people to have used the term noble savage is like a term of derision. This argument was used to say basically that the indigenous societies and contemporary times of the 17 hundred in 18 hundred were not peers on the world's stage. Ono: "The european tradition pretended that it wasn't"
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