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Author Redman, Samuel J., author.

Title Prophets and ghosts : the story of salvage anthropology / Samuel J. Redman.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
©2021

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 Central Library - Circulating Collection  E77.9 .R43 2021    Available
Description 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- History.
Cultural property -- Protection -- United States -- History.
Anthropological museums and collections -- United States -- History.
Racism in anthropology -- United States -- History.
Cultural property -- Repatriation -- United States -- History.
United States -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- History.
ISBN 9780674979574 hardcover
0674979575 hardcover
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