Nikhil Krishnan

A frictionless history of fieldwork: In Search of Us reviewed

It’s not all red-cheeked missionaries and pith-helmeted viceroys in these life stories of 12 anthropologists

Anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston, 1891-1960. [PhotoQuest/Getty]
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