Salvage ethnography

Salvage ethnography is the recording of the practices and folklore of cultures threatened with extinction, including as a result of modernization and assimilation. It is generally associated with the American anthropologist Franz Boas^{[citation needed]}; he and his students aimed to record vanishing Native American cultures.^[1] Since the 1960s, anthropologists have used the term as part of a critique of 19th-century ethnography and early modern anthropology.^[2]

^ Calhoun, Craig J. (2002). "Salvage ethnography". Dictionary of the Social Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 424. ISBN 9780195123715.
^ Gruber, Jacob (Dec 1970). "Ethnographic Salvage and the Shaping of Anthropology". American Anthropologist. New Series. 72 (6): 1289–1299. doi:10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00040.

[1] Calhoun, Craig J. (2002). "Salvage ethnography". Dictionary of the Social Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 424. ISBN 9780195123715.

[2] Gruber, Jacob (Dec 1970). "Ethnographic Salvage and the Shaping of Anthropology". American Anthropologist. New Series. 72 (6): 1289–1299. doi:10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00040.

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