The first fifty years of the twentieth century were a time of ferment in American anthropology. American ethnographic work evolved from the "salvage" work of professionals affiliated with museums who undertook to document with artifacts and testimony the threatened traditional way of life among the Native American tribes, to the establishment of anthropology as a science, represented in university departments, that sought to describe the "ethnographic present" of isolated primitive peoples, often in distant parts of the world.
By the beginning of the 1950s, cultural anthropology...
The first fifty years of the twentieth century were a time of ferment in American anthropology. American ethnographic work evolved from the "salvag...
