Studying Salvage Anthropology w/ Samuel Redman - Ep 176

We dive into Dr. Samuel Redman’s latest book, Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Amber and Anna (mostly Amber) have lots of questions about the seemingly paradoxical 19th- and 20th- century urge by American scholars to “rescue” objects and even human remains from “disappearing” Indigenous groups. It’s a fascinating window into anthropology viewed as a moral and academic obligation, and the social underpinnings of the development of the discipline in the US. And! You can enter to win your very own copy of Ghosts and Prophets! Harvard University Press generously hooked us up with three copies to give away. The promotion is running via Twitter and Instagram, so keep an eye out for those posts for the extremely low-effort rules for entering.

Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!

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• Prophets and Ghosts (via WorldCat)

• Samuel J. Redman (UMass Amherst)

• Wendy Red Star’s 1880 Crow Peace Delegation (Birmingham Museum of Art)

• Wendy Red Star’s Children of the Large-Beaked Bird (MASS MoCA)

• Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek (Marie Watt Studio)

• Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution)

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It's the (Moral) Circle of Life! - Ep 72

This week, Amber and Anna wade into the moral circle. When it comes to deserving help and care, who counts? What does that care look like, and how can we see evidence for it in the historical and archaeological record? We do our best to wrap our brains around all this and more.

Links

• Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you? (Vox)

• Lake Erie now has legal rights, just like you (Vox)

• Expanding the moral circle: Inclusion and exclusion mindsets and the circle of moral regard (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)

• A Brief History of Charitable Giving (Visual.ly)

• Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion (New York Times)

• Calculated or caring? Neanderthal healthcare in social context (World Archaeology)

• Brutal Brawls And Cranial Surgery Discovered On Ancient Skeletons From Lake Titicaca (Forbes)

• How the poor became blessed (Aeon)

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