In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had evolved, anthropology was a thriving area of study. But, by the middle of the twentieth century, it was difficult to think about ideas of 'savages' and otherness when 'civilised' man had wreaked such devastation across two world wars, and field work was to be displaced by sociology and the study...Read more