In Search of Us
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***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the
pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations
that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they
discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.
In the late nineteenth century, when non-European societies were
seen as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how Western
civilisation had evolved, anthropology was a thrilling new
discipline which attracted the brightest minds of the academic
world.But, by the middle of the twentieth century, colonialism was
recognised as being inextricably linked to exploitation and
outdated labels like 'savage' were inconceivable when so-called
'civilised' man had wreaked such devastation across two world wars.
Focusing on twelve key European and American anthropologists
working in the field, from Franz Boas on Baffin Island in the 1880s
to Claude Levi-Strauss in Brazil fifty years later, Lucy Moore
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.In an enthralling, perceptive narrative, Moore shows
how these radical anthropologists were inspired by their time in
the furthest-flung reaches of the known world, becoming pioneers of
a new way of thinking. In the end, their legacy is less about
understanding foreign cultures and more about their attempts to
persuade human beings to look at one another with eyes washed free
from prejudice. Their intention may have been to explain what they
saw as the primitive world to the civilised one but they ended up
changing the way people viewed themselves - at least for a time.
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