Expansive Moment - The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918-1970

Klappentext The focus of this book is on the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its concerns interact with the political and ideological debate of the inter-war years. Zusammenfassung Jack Goody's book explores the history of social anthropology in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners! such as Malinowski and Fortes! and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social anthropologists were defined by institutions! particularly in response to colonialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930-1939: social reform in the colonies; 2. Training for the field: the sorcerer's apprentices; 3. Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red; 4. Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard; 5. Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others; 6. The Oxford Group; 7. Some achievements of anthropology in Africa; 8. Personal contributions; 9. Concluding remarks; Appendices; Notes; List of references; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Goody, Jack (University of Cambridge) Goody
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.1995
• EAN: 9780521456661
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45666-1
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology