The Building Of British Social Anthropology

Author : K. Langham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 429 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400984646

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The nature of that transition to maturity [a transition involving "The acquisition of the sort of paradigm that identifies challenging puzzles, supplies clues to their solution, and guarantees that the truly clever practitioner will succeed") deserves fuller discussion than it has received in this book, particularly from those concerned with the development of the contemporary social sciences. (Thomas S. Kuhn, 1969, Postscript to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. ) The fIrst two or three decades of the twentieth-century represents a shadowy period in the history of science. For most contemporary scientists, the period is a little too far away to be the subject of a fIrst-hand oral tradition; while at the same time it is not suffIciently remote to have acquired the epic and oversimplifIed contour of history which has been transformed into mythol ogy. Historians of science, by contrast, who want to free themselves from the mythology which is used to legitimize the present state of the discipline, are interested in discovering what really happened, and how it was regarded at the time. For them the nature of science in the early twentieth-century is obscured by what they regard as its proximity in time, and they are disturbed by a general lack of depth in scholarly work in the area, which makes it diffI cult to see the period in proper perspective.

Author : K. Langham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400984650

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Author : James Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136644245

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Before Social Anthropology by James Urry Pdf

First Published in 1993. From the 1930s, British anthropology was dominated by social anthropologists, an achievement of the two founding fathers, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. However, the field of ethnology had originated in Britain in the 1840s and a broadly based general anthropology was well established before the rise of social anthropology. The essays in this volume explore the development of British anthropology in the period from 1880 to 1920 and deal with such diverse issues as the establishment of new research methodologies, the development of ethnographic reporting, institutional change and the professionalization of the subject, and the connection between anthropology and imperialism. These essays reveal how the establishment of social anthropology involved a narrowing field which at first involved not just the study of custom but also included archaeology, physical anthropology and philology. The emergence of the new approaches of the 1920s and 1930s, and the triumph of social anthropology as an academic, intellectual and professional discipline in post-war Britain also led to the subsequent loss of a more holistic vision of anthropology.

Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136802201

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Anthropology and Anthropologists by Adam Kuper Pdf

On its first publication in 1973 Adam Kuper's entertaining history of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions. But his often irreverent account soon established itself as one of the introductions to anthropology. Since the second revised edition was published in 1983, important developments have occurred within British and European anthropology. This third, enlarged and updated edition responds to these fresh currents. Adam Kuper takes the story up to the present day, and a new final chapter traces the emergence of a modern European social anthropology in contrast with developments in American cultural anthropology over the last two decades. Anthropology and Anthropologists provides a critical historical account of modern British social anthropology: it describes the careers of the major theorists, their ideas and their contributions in the context of the intellectual and institutional environments in which they worked.

Author : Hilary Henson
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106001511044

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British Social Anthropologists and Language by Hilary Henson Pdf

Author : George W. Stocking
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299099039

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Functionalism Historicized by George W. Stocking Pdf

" This volume is likely to prove indispensable to historians of anthropology in general and of British anthropology in particular. There are a wide range of historical skills on display, from traditional textual analysis to historical sociology of the most sophisticated sort, and there is a more or less thorough chronological coverage from the era of classical evolutionism virtually up to the present. One can only hope that historicizing anthropologists will sample some of these wares."—Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Author : E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415330300

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Social Anthropology by E. E. Evans-Pritchard Pdf

Social Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers, missionaries and colonial servants, up to the second half of the twentieth century. First published in 1951.

Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317608363

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Anthropology and Anthropologists by Adam Kuper Pdf

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.

Author : David Mills
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845454502

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Difficult Folk? by David Mills Pdf

How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly worlds. Focusing on the field of social anthropology in twentieth-century Britain, this book describes individual, departmental and institutional rivalries over funding and influence. It examines the efforts of scholars such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Evans-Pritchard and Max Gluckman to further their own visions for social anthropology. Did the future lie with the humanities or the social sciences, with addressing social problems or developing scholarly autonomy? This new history situates the discipline's rise within the post-war expansion of British universities and the challenges created by the end of Empire.

Author : Richard Fardon,Oliva Harris,Trevor H J Marchand,Cris Shore,Veronica Strang,Richard Wilson,Mark Nuttall
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446266014

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The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology by Richard Fardon,Oliva Harris,Trevor H J Marchand,Cris Shore,Veronica Strang,Richard Wilson,Mark Nuttall Pdf

In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date statement of research in Social Anthropology available and the essential point of departure for future projects. The Handbook is divided into four sections: -Part I: Interfaces examines Social Anthropology′s disciplinary connections, from Art and Literature to Politics and Economics, from Linguistics to Biomedicine, from History to Media Studies. -Part II: Places examines place, region, culture, and history, from regional, area studies to a globalized world -Part III: Methods examines issues of method; from archives to war zones, from development projects to art objects, and from ethics to comparison -Part IV: Futures anticipates anthropologies to come: in the Brain Sciences; in post-Development; in the Body and Health; and in new Technologies and Materialities Edited by the leading figures in social anthropology, the Handbook includes a substantive introduction by Richard Fardon, a think piece by Jean and John Comaroff, and a concluding last word on futures by Marilyn Strathern. The authors - each at the leading edge of the discipline - contribute in-depth chapters on both the foundational ideas and the latest research. Comprehensive and detailed, this magisterial Handbook overviews the last 25 years of the social anthropological imagination. It will speak to scholars in Social Anthropology and its many related disciplines.

Author : Freddy Foks
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9780520390324

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Participant Observers by Freddy Foks Pdf

"By the 1950s, social anthropologists were at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and the limits to economic development in Britain and the British Empire. This book explains how anthropology rose to such prominence and how its influence dispersed across the humanities and social sciences. Part institutional history of social anthropology's imperial formation, part cultural history of the discipline's impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's midcentury intellectual culture"--

Author : Edmund Ronald Leach
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015047485191

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Social Anthropology by Edmund Ronald Leach Pdf

This introduction to the study of human social structures shows how major dimensions of social life--such as politics, religion, law, and economics--can be understood by the close investigation of behavior patterns and ritual formaities of the domestic groups in which peole live.

Author : Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015065946561

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Research in Social Anthropology by Social Science Research Council (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Ray Lucas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474241519

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Anthropology for Architects by Ray Lucas Pdf

What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects – a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. It looks at the choices that designers have to make – whether engaging with a site context, drawing, modelling, constructing, or making a post-occupancy analysis – and explores how an anthropological view can help inform design decisions. Each chapter is arranged around a familiar building type (including the studio, the home, markets, museums, and sacred spaces), in each case showing how anthropology can help designers to think about the social life of buildings at an appropriate scale: that of the individual life-worlds which make up the everyday lives of a building's users. Showing how anthropology offers an invaluable framework for thinking about complex, messy, real-world situations, the book argues that, ultimately, a truly anthropological architecture offers the potential for a more socially informed, engaged and sensitive architecture which responds more directly to people's needs. Based on the author's experience teaching as well as his research into anthropology by way of creative practice, this book will be directly applicable to students and researchers in architecture, landscape, urban design, and design anthropology, as well as to architectural professionals.

Author : Philip Mayer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 041533036X

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Socialization by Philip Mayer Pdf

This volume represents the first major effort to apply the distinctive techniques of British social anthropology to the subject of socialization. Along with methodological and theoretical discussion, there is a variety of new field material from Africa, Southeast Asia and elsewhere. First published in 1967.