For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropologys turbulent history has hidden behind the staid faade of the American Museum of Natural History. From an insiders perspective, the well-known ethnologist Stan Freed engagingly introduces us to an amazing cast of explorers, eccentrics, idealists, pranksters and forbidding intellectual - an unlikely mix that played a key role in establishing the science of Anthropology as we know it today.
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Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation