Prophets and Ghosts
Subtitle: The Story of Salvage Anthropology
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780674979574
Subjects: United states, history
Description: "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"--