A critical and historical account of British social anthropology from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, ideal for the student.
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Its great merit is that it not only describes satisfactorily all major developments in method, theory and controversy, it also gives much biographical and sometimes gossipy information about the persons responsible for those developments.
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Adam Kuper is Professor of Human Sciences at Brunel University. He has taught at universities in Uganda, Britain, Sweden, Holland and the United States. He founded the European Association of Social Anthropologists in 1989 and his most recent books are The Invention of Primitive Society (Routledge, 1988), the edited Conceptualizing Society (Routledge, 1992), and The Chosen Primate (1994).
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Malinowski has a strong claim to being the founder of the profession of social anthropology in Britain, for he established its distinctive apprenticeship - intensive fieldwork in an exotic community. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
government anthropologist, social anthropology, generalized exchange, social anthropologists, alliance theory, lineage system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Audrey Richards, United States, London School of Economics, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, New Guinea, Pul Eliya, University College London, Royal Anthropological Institute, Elliot Smith, First World War, International African Institute, British Association, Cape Town, Godfrey Wilson, Political Systems of Highland Burma, Second World War, Edmund Leach, Jack Goody, Margaret Mead, Mary Douglas, Northern Rhodesia, Raymond Firth, Ernest Gellner, Hilda Beemer New!
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Malinowski has a strong claim to being the founder of the profession of social anthropology in Britain, for he established its distinctive apprenticeship - intensive fieldwork in an exotic community. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
government anthropologist, social anthropology, generalized exchange, social anthropologists, alliance theory, lineage system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Audrey Richards, United States, London School of Economics, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, New Guinea, Pul Eliya, University College London, Royal Anthropological Institute, Elliot Smith, First World War, International African Institute, British Association, Cape Town, Godfrey Wilson, Political Systems of Highland Burma, Second World War, Edmund Leach, Jack Goody, Margaret Mead, Mary Douglas, Northern Rhodesia, Raymond Firth, Ernest Gellner, Hilda Beemer New!
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- Social Anthropology by E. E. Evans-Pritchard on 9 pages
- African Political Systems by Fortes on 7 pages
- Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology) by E. R. Leach on 7 pages
- Sexual Life of Savages by Bronislaw Malinowski on 6 pages
- Social Anthropology by Edmund Leach on 4 pages
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- Seven Theories of Religion by Daniel L. Pals on page 215, page 217, and page 249
- We Europeans?: Mass-Observation, 'Race' and British Identity in the Twentieth Century (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Tony Kushner on page 10, page 16, and Back Matter
- Small Places, Large Issues - Second Edition: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropolog (Anthropology, Culture and Society) by Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen on page 8, page 23, and Back Matter
- Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life by Stanley J. Tambiah on page 405, page 477, and Back Matter
- Seven Theories of Religion by Daniel L. Pals on page 230, page 232, and page 264
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