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Correcting the Record

Essays on the History of American Anthropology

Herbert S. Lewis

198 pages, 7 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-765-6 $120.00/£92.00 / Hb / Published (December 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-766-3 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805397656


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“In this book, Lewis’ combination of erudite history of science and a critical reflection on ongoing postcolonial and decolonial debates offers a rare alternative view to new generations of students and researchers in anthropology and beyond.” • Frederico Delgado Rosa, NOVA University

“Lewis has the stature in the profession and the ability to intercede in the rewriting of the history of anthropology that makes this book a significant contribution to the current conversation about the relevance of the past for the present.” • Paul Shankman, University of Colorado

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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.

Herbert S. Lewis is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some of his publications are Jimma Abba Jifar: An Oromo Monarchy (orig. 1965; Red Sea Press, 2001), After the Eagles Landed: The Yemenites of Israel (Taylor & Francis, 1989), Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of Wisconsin Oneidas (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), and In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology (Taylor & Francis, 2014).

Subject: Anthropology (General)Theory and MethodologyColonial History


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