Talk:Henry Ling Roth

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Henry Ling Roth/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

I would like to highlight that this article needs to cite sources to verify claims that Roth made worthwhile contributions to anthropology.

Roth was a product of his time, certainly, and the racism inherent in ethnography at this time needs to be recognised. With regard to Tasmanian Aboriginals, Roth's analytical text about these people shows in many passages that he followed a trend of anthropological thought that had little scientific basis and revealed more about the narrow, post-colonial mind of the English scientist than about the native people of Tasmania.

Furthermore the article's suggestion that the Tasmanian Aboriginals have 'vanished' is not only false, but offensive to the descendants of Tasmanian Aborigines who are alive and well. That his book on Aboriginal Tasmanians is a 'standard' text, in any modern sense, is also completely false

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