Savage Anxieties by Robert A. Williams Jr.

Robert Williams, award-winning author, legal scholar, and member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, proposes a wide-ranging reexamination of the history of the Western world, told from the perspective of civilization's war on tribalism as a way of life.Starting from the foundations of Western political theory and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome to show how the West's war on tribalism influenced and shaped Christianity, the Renaissance and Enlightenment Eras, the African slave trade, Darwin's theory of evolution, the Vietnam War, and even today's environmental movement, Williams shows us how what we thought we knew about the rise of Western civilization over the tribe is in dire need of reappraisal. (Enrolled Member, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) is Regents Professor, E. Sometimes it takes an amateur to bring a fresh perspective to a discipline, and I think Williams has opened some ground that others may explore more thoroughly. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of violence and dispossession have all been justified by citing civilization's opposition to these differences represented by the tribe. Williams, Jr., Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Robert J. Savage Anxieties is an amateur effort that punches above its weight. Historical conflicts between the Western world and tribalism are said to be grounded in irreconcilable differences in culture, governing institutions, religion and worldview. Williams, Jr., cochair of the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program and author of Savage Anxieties Sacred Instructions is a roadmap for those who may be lostand not even realize it. Savage Anxieties: Global Justice, First Nations’ Land Claims, and Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights under International Law Richard M Hutchings Description: Earlier this month, as part of the 585 billion defense bill for 2015, Congress passed a measure that would give lands sacred to American Indians in Arizona to a foreign company.

From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society.

Savage Anxieties by Robert A. Williams Jr.