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Some anthropologists, criticizing the sort of ethnography my father’s generation did as continuing the discipline’s extractive, colonialist ways, use the label “salvage anthropology.”
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Some anthropologists use the label “salvage anthropology” to criticize earlier ethnographic work as being extractive and colonialist.
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- Ben Ryder Howe
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- 41bc5453-f07d-45a6-8834-89fb4de8eda5
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- September 24, 2026 at 11:37 PM (2 weeks ago)
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- September 24, 2026 at 11:37 PM (2 weeks ago)
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