Book ID: CBB523523945

Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century (2015)

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Kuper, Adam (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Revised edition
Language: English

Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised. Adam Kuper situates the leading actors in their historical and institutional context, probes their rivalries, revisits their debates, and reviews their key ethnographies. Drawing on recent scholarship he shows how the discipline was shaped by the colonial setting and by developments in the social sciences.

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Authors & Contributors
Mullaney, Thomas Shawn
Roberto Evangelista
King, Charles
Cerea, Alessandra
Pecere, Paolo
Blanckaert, Claude
Concepts
Ethnology
Anthropology
Social sciences
Museums
Rituals
Classification
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
China
Polynesia
Rhodesia
Institutions
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
Oxford University
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