Prophets and Ghosts : : The Story of Salvage Anthropology / / Samuel J. Redman.
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, anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, and other chroniclers...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Prologue
- 1 The Birth of Salvage Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century
- 2 Building a Cultural Salvage Movement in the United States
- 3 The Federal Government and Salvage Anthropology
- 4 Salvaging Society through Art and Image
- 5 Cultural Salvage in California
- 6 Salvage Anthropology in the Modern World
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index