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Roy Harvey Pearce ( 1919-2012) : obituary by Michael Davidson
Roy Harvey Pearce, one of the founders of the UCSD’s Literature Department, died on August 27th 2012. Prior to coming to UCSD he taught at U.C. Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and the Claremont Graduate School. He was teaching at Ohio State University in 1963 when, along with Andrew Wright, he was recruited by Herb York and Roger Revelle to move to UCSD and help develop the new university’s humanities program and become the Literature Department’s first chair. He brought with him a core number of faculty from Ohio State including Sigurd Burckhardt, and Leonard Newmark, and within a few years, Carlos Blanco, Robert Elliott, Bram Dijkstra, Jack Behar, and Bernhard Blume. He inaugurated the idea of a single department of Literature with a strong emphasis in comparative and interdisciplinary study. In the mid-1980s he worked to create a single Ph.D. in Literature (rather than separate degrees in individual national literatures). In 1966 Pearce was one of three UCSD faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as Associate Dean and Dean of Graduate Studies at UCSD and was a member of the board of directors of several academic associations, including the National Council of Teachers of Eng
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Pearce, Roy Harvey. Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1953.
- This is an exploration into what early Americans thought of the indigenous people of the land that the colonizers sought. It is best summarized on page X of the forward (below).
- Similar to other works on this site, it addresses the question of how one people can justify the genocide and land-stealing of another. And it explores the fundamentally modern maxim that we are not successful humans unless we transform parts of wild nature into usable resources. And further, one may not be fully human at all unless one engages in such activity, which would make nature-based peoples less than human.
- “The colonial enterprise was in all ways a religious enterprise. For Puritans, as for the pilgrims before them, land tenure was finally to be demonstrated from theology,” (p 20). See Beyond Geography for similar sentiments.
- “The idea of history as progress made it possible fully to comprehend the culturally earlier as the morally inferior,” (p 104).
Forward: Arnold Krupat
(x) It would be Pearce’s task to show the way in which “the history of American civili