Julius Lips, precursor de la antropología inversa

The article reviews the trajectory of Julius Lips, German ethnologist who before the Second World War fled from the Nazis to settle in the United States. In North America Lips consolidated his professional career, carried out ethnographic fieldwork among the Algonquian-speaking peoples, and published his most important anthropological contribution: The Savage Hits Back. This book analyzes a collection of ethnographic objects gathered by Lips himself that documents the ways in which “savage art” represents the White man and anticipates what is now called “reverse anthropology”: the native capacity to objectify his own observers.