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"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"--
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2 editions- Other · English · 2021Harvard University Press · 328 pages · 9780674979574
- Other · English · 2021Harvard University Press · 9780674270015
United states, historyIndians of North AmericaAntiquitiesCollection and preservationHistoryCultural propertyProtectionAnthropological museums and collections