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"This tenth volume of the series, Local Knowledge, Global Stage, examines worldwide historical trends of anthropology ranging from the assertion that all British anthropology is a study of the Old Testament to the discovery of the untranslated shorthand notes of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas. Other topics include archival research into the study of Vancouver Island's indigenous languages, explorations of the Christian notion of virgin births in Edwin Sidney Hartland's The Legend of Perseus, and the Canadian government's implementation of European-model farms as a way to undermine…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2016University of Nebraska Press · 9780803295186
- Other · English · 2016University of Nebraska Press · 368 pages · 9780803295162
- Other · English · 2016University of Nebraska Press · 354 pages · 9780803288102
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