Prophets and ghosts : the story of salvage anthropology / Samuel J. Redman.
Prophets and ghosts : the story of salvage anthropology / Samuel J. Redman.
Prophets and ghosts : the story of salvage anthropology / Samuel J. Redman.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
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G 2021/2392
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English
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314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The birth of salvage anthropology in the nineteenth century -- Building a cultural salvage movement in the United States -- The federal government and salvage anthropology -- Salvaging society through art and image -- Cultural salvage in California -- Salvage anthropology in the modern world.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2021.
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Summary
"Nineteenth-century "salvage anthropology" preserved millions of Indigenous objects, sources of knowledge invaluable to researchers and the public. But many of these objects were stolen, and for decades exhibited as proof of cultural evolution. Samuel Redman details the tangled history and explores how we might contend with such collections today"-...
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Prophets and ghosts : the story of salvage anthropology / Samuel J. Redman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/2392
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74VKaXvWalgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaXvWalgM
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0674979575
9780674979574
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970.01
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991024434521902626
