Caroline Moore

Working remotely: five formidable female anthropologists

Frances Larson tells the stories of these intrepid women and their pioneering work in some of the most isolated regions on Earth

Maria Czaplicka’s fieldwork took her to Siberia in search of nomadic reindeer-herders — who had never seen a European woman before. Credit: ©Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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  • Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

    Frances Larson

    Granta, pp. 352, £20

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