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Zusatztext "Oxford has arguably contributed more to our understanding of tribal societies than any other department of anthropology in the world?Through creating a virtual community! by uniting their work and their lives! by their assurance! generations of Oxford scholars have been able to make the leaps which take us into new and previously unsuspected worlds. They had the privileges! the shared zeal and the shock of similarity-with-difference which engenders true creativity and they made good use of it." · [from the Preface] "[The volume's] virtues include giving outsiders a sense of Oxford anthropology's oral tradition." · JRAI " There is no doubt that Oxford has been a leading player in the discipline of anthropology. It is precisely the fact that this resounding success can be taken for granted that makes possible this deliciously indiscreet retrospective. " · Books & Culture Informationen zum Autor Peter Rivière is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology of the University of Oxford and Fellow Emeritus of Linacre College, Oxford, and has held posts at London, Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Specialising in the native societies of Lowland South America and the history of the European exploration of Amazonia, his publications include, The Forgotten Frontier: Ranchers of North Brazil (1972), Individual and Society in Guiana (1984), and Absented-Minded Imperialism (1995). Most recently he has published, under the aegis of The Hakluyt Society, a two-volume edition of Sir Robert Schomburgk’s reports on his Guiana travels. Klappentext Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University. Zusammenfassung Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Contributors Preface Introduction Peter Rivière Chapter 1. Origins and Survivals: Tylor, Balfour and the Pitt Rivers Museum and their Role within Anthropology in Oxford 1883-1905 Christopher Gosden , Frances Larson and Alison Petch Chapter 2. The Formative Years: the Committee for Anthropology 1905-38 Peter Rivière Chapter 3. How All Souls got its Anthropologist John Davis Chapter 4. A Major Disaster to Anthropology? Oxford and Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown David Mills Chapter 5. 'A feeling for form and pattern, and a touch of genius': E-P's Vision and the Institute, 1946-70 Wendy James Chapter 6. Oxford and Biological Anthropology Geoffrey Harrison Chapter 7. Oxford Anthropology as an Extra-curricular Activity: OUAS and JASO Robert Parkin Chapter 8. Oxford Anthropology since 1970: through Schismogenesis to a new Testament Jonathan Benthall Appendix: Reflections on Oxford's Global Links Compiled by Wendy James Bibliography Index ...
