Barbaric Others: A Manifesto on Western Racism

by Ziauddin Sardar

Book Overview

The word barbarian is derived from the Greek term 'barbaroi' - or one who cannot speak Greek. As the Greeks believed that language was the tool of reason, non-Greek speakers, therefore, were considered devoid of the facility to reason or to act according to logic. This concept of barbarism in turn shaped the early anthropological observations of Columbus and the first European visitors to the Americas. Barbaric Others examines the convenient myopia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745307434
• ISBN13: 9780745307435
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.5"