Chicanery - Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 19201960

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues' intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors' reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of influential anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.

About the author

Christine Winter is Associate Professor at the College of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Flinders University (Adelaide). Their most recent co-authored book is Scholars at War (ANU Press, 2012).

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Gray, Geoffrey Munro Gray, Gray Geoffrey, Doug Munro, Munro Doug, Christine Winter
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781800739703
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-970-3
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthr; Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Australia, 20th Century, EDUCATION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural anthropology, General studies