Lucy Moore – Ways With Words Dartington

Adventures in Anthropology – Lucy Moore

In the late nineteenth century, anthropology was a thriving area of study. But by the mid twentieth century it was difficult to think about ideas of otherness when ‘civilised’ man had wreaked such devastation across two world wars. By focusing on thirteen key European and American figures in this field, Lucy Moore tells the story of the brief flowering of anthropology, exploring attitudes about race, sexual liberation and tolerance in ways they had never anticipated.