A late 19th and early 20th century anthropological research method, famously practiced by Malinowski, salvage anthropology involves recovering the details of cultural institutions or rituals by talking to elders who remember them from when they were practiced in the past. It can help revivify traditional practices but it can also obscure the place of Indigenous  peoples in the global world system.

A late 19th and early 20th century anthropological research method, famously practiced by Boas, salvage anthropology involves recovering the details of cultural institutions or rituals by talking to elders who remember them from when they were practiced in the past. It can help revivify traditional practices but it can also obscure the place of Indigenous  peoples in the global world system.

A late 19th and early 20th century anthropological research method, famously practiced by Malinowski, salvage anthropology involves recovering the details of cultural institutions or rituals by talking to elders who remember them from when they were practiced in the past. It can help revivify the place of Indigenous  peoples in the global world system but it can also obscure traditional practices 

A late 19th and early 20th century anthropological research method, famously practiced by Boas, salvage anthropology involves recovering the details of cultural institutions or rituals by talking to elders who remember them from when they were practiced in the past. It can help revivify the place of Indigenous  peoples in the global world system but it can also obscure traditional practices.