Word info

Ellingson

Proper noun

Meaning

Ellingson (plural Ellingsons)

A surname.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

"As Ter Ellingson demonstrates, Crawfurd was responsible for re-introducing the Pre-Rousseauian concept of 'the Noble Savage' to modern anthropology, attributing it wrongly and quite deliberately to Rousseau.” Source: Internet

Ellingson (2001), p. 4. Ellingson finds that any remotely positive portrayal of an indigenous (or working class) person is apt to be characterized (out of context) as a supposedly "unrealistic" or "romanticized" "Noble Savage". Source: Internet

Lescarbot's familiarity with Montaigne, is discussed by Ter Ellingson in The Myth of the Noble Savage. Source: Internet

Ashley Renee Ellingson and Bryan Curtis Jaton were married September 2nd, 2011. Source: Internet

Thus, my criticism of Diamond's eco-pessimism does not rest on an unjustifiable belief in what he calls the "Rousseau-esque fantasy" of the 'ecological noble Savage' (Ellingson, 2001). Source: Internet

The Myth of the Noble Savage, Ter Ellingson, (University of California, 2001), note p. 390. In Dryden's day the word "savage" did not necessarily have the connotations of cruelty now associated with it. Source: Internet

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