Ethel Lindgren on Cultural Appropriation

The NY Times has produced one of their "overlooked no more" obituaries for Ethel Lindgren (1905-1988), an American/British anthropologists who did fieldwork with the reindeer-herding Evenki people of northern Manchuria.

Her experience there led her to this:

Peace, Lindgren wrote in a letter, could be achieved through a “blending of cultures.” The easy coexistence of Cossacks, a Slavic people, and Evenki was ready evidence that “the interchange of cultural traits is a very important background for intergroup friendships.”