Prophets and Ghosts : The Story of Salvage Anthropology /

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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Redman, Samuel J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Anthropological museums and collections > United States > History.
Cultural property > Protection > United States > History.
Cultural property > Repatriation > United States > History.
Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collection and preservation > History.
Racism in anthropology > United States > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
American Indians.
Anthropology.
Art.
Collecting.
Cultural Revitalization.
History.
Museum Studies.
Museums.
Native Americans.
Painting.
Photography.
Salvage Anthropology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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