Correcting the Record

Download or read book Correcting the Record written by Herbert S. Lewis and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-12-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. Herbert S. Lewis recovers the reality of the first century of American anthropology as a vital scholarly discipline that rejected established ideas of race, insisted on the value of very different ways of life, and delivered irreplaceable ethnographic studies. This volume presents powerful refutations of the accumulated damaging myths about anthropology’s history.