ANTH 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Noble Savage, Identity Politics, Political Ecology
8 Jun 2016
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Species don"t travel just as warm and cold, dealing with the trade means to engage with the world. Ecologically noble savage and the debate regarding his existence or not. There are reasons why people fail to conserve, they cant see that they are impacting their environment and that they are in fact degrading it. People don"t know the actual relationship between people in the world but they still engage with relations with people who are functional. The gure of the savage has often been used to highlight the conjectural, constructed nature of the problems experienced by western societies. Since in literature the ecologically and morally noble savage has been used so much that his actual existence has been put in question as if he is just a dream or an illusion. Reinforced by notions of equilibrium which reify the development gap. It"s hard to see how people will organize production with constraints.
