Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Samuel J Redman

Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology

Samuel J Redman

304 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of "vanishing" Indigenous peoples through dispossession of the very communities it was meant to protect. In the late nineteenth century, anthropologi...

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