Rounsevelle wildman biography

Rounsevelle Wildman was an American journalist, a member of the United States Foreign Service, and the owner and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine.
Rounsevelle Wildman was an American journalist, a member of the United States Foreign Service, and the owner and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Overland Monthly from 1894 to 1897.
The papers of Rounsevelle Wildman, diplomat and editor, and Edwin Wildman, diplomat, editor, and war correspondent, were purchased in 1934.

•

"Baboo's Good Tiger"

none

"Baboo's Good Tiger."

Aboo Din's first-born, Baboo, was only four years old when he had his famous adventure with a tiger that he found sleeping in the hot lallang grass within the distance of a child's voice from Aboo Din's bungalow.

For a long time before that hardly a day had passed but Aboo Din, who was our syce, or groom, and wore the American colors proudly on his right arm, came in from the servants' quarters with an anxious look on his kindly brown face and asked respectfully for the tuan (lord) or mem(lady).

"What is it, Aboo Din?" the mistress would inquire, as visions of Baboo drowned in the great Shanghai jar, or of Baboo lying crushed by a boa among the yellow bamboos beyond the hedge, passed swiftly through her mind.

"Mem see Baboo?" came the inevitable question.

It was unnecessary to say more. At once Ah Mingo, the "boy;" Zim, the cook; the kebuns (gardeners); the tukan-ayer (water-boy), and even the sleek Hindoo dirzee, who sat sewing, dozing and chewing betel-nut on the shady side of the veranda, turned out wit

•

Rounsevelle Wildman: The Lone Ethnographer

Abstract

Rounsevelle Wildman (1864 – 1901), the United States Consul at Singapore, published a series of magazine articles documenting his experiences in the Malay Archipelago from 1893 to 1897. These articles, published in several travel-related magazines, feature Wildman’s observations of the Malay Archipelago and its varied peoples. The ethnographic perspective in these writings may be analyzed using Renato Rosaldo’s Lone Ethnographer concept, as presented in Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. This tripartite model concerns the ethnographic process, the role of ethnography in imperialism, and the relationship between the ethnographer and natives. Evaluating Wildman’s articles with this model, one may conclude that he provided an informal ethnographic perspective as an American diplomat in a European colony, one which supported imperialism and the subjugation of natives.

Recommended Citation

Teng, Wen Li (2018) "Rounsevelle Wildman: The Lone Ethnographer," Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History: Vol. 8: Iss

•

Rounsevelle Wildman

American journalist (1864–1901)

Rounsevelle Wildman (March 19, 1864, in Batavia, New York – February 22, 1901) was an American journalist, a member of the United States Foreign Service, and the owner and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Overland Monthly from 1894 to 1897.^[1]

Biography

His maternal grandfather, Colonel J. P. Rounsevelle, was a leading politician and financier in the state of New York.^[2] After education in Lima, New York at Genessee Wesleyan Seminary^[3] (of which his father was the president), Rounsevelle Wildman graduated from Syracuse University, where he studied journalism.^[1] After experience on newspapers in New York City, Chicago, and Kansas City,^[2] he became in 1885 a reporter for the Idaho Statesman in Boise.^[1] In Boise, he was an advocate for the Republican Party and gained a literary reputation for his contributions published by magazines in the eastern United States.^[3] In June 1890, President Benjamin Harrison, a Republican, appointed