Dark Vanishings by Patrick Brantlinger - 9780801488764

Dark VanishingsDiscourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 18001930\nAuthor(s): Patrick Brantlinger\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801488764, 978-0801488764\nSynopsis\nPatrick 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 [url] according to Brantlinger, saw the problem in the same terms of inevitability (or doom) as did scientists such as Charles Darwin and Thomas He.