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In search of us : adventures in anthropology / Lucy Moore.

by Moore, Lucy, 1970-

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Atlantic Books, 2022.

Anthropologists -- Biography.

Anthropology -- History -- 19th century.

9781786499158 (hc.)

311 p. : ill. (black and white, and col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.

"Focusing on twelve key European and American anthropologists working in the field, from Franz Boas on Baffin Island in the 1880s to Claude Lévi-Strauss in Brazil 50 years later, Lucy Moore [an author and BBC broadcaster] explores the brief flowering of anthropology as a quasi-scientific area of study with all its insights and ambivalence. 'In Search of Us' tells the story of the men and women whose observations of the 'other' would transform attitudes about race, gender equality, sexual liberation, parenting and tolerance in ways they had never anticipated. Moore shows how, unintended though it was, these anthropologists were to become pioneers of a new way of thinking. Their legacy is less about understanding far away cultures and more about teaching people to look at one another 'with eyes washed free from prejudice.'"

Lucy Moore is an author and broadcaster whose work includes Maharanis: The Lives & Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses. She has written for the Sunday Times, Observer, Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, and has presented series for the BBC and Sky.

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