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- Difficult Folk?
- Publication Name
- Difficult Folk? : a Political History of Social Anthropology
- Title
- Difficult Folk?
- Subtitle
- A Political History of Social Anthropology
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1845454650
- EAN
- 9781845454654
- ISBN
- 9781845454654
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Topic
- Social Sciences
- Release Date
- 01/08/2010
- Release Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Series
- Methodology and History in Anthropology Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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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.
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1845454650
ISBN-13
9781845454654
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Difficult Folk? : a Political History of Social Anthropology
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Series
Methodology and History in Anthropology Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
19
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Gn308.3.G7 M55 2008
Volume Number
Vol. 19
Reviews
"David Mills's political history of social anthropology in the UK from the 1930s to the 1960s is increasingly valuable to British anthropologists and looks set to become a set textbook in the history of the discipline. ...threr is much in this book that might prompt us to consider both what might have been, and what might yet be." JRAI "That [Mills] has voided a parochial indulgence of an Oxford-centric agenda to the reading of the history of British social anthropology through its evolving identity politics while fully acknowledging the historical importance of Oxford anthropology is a tribute to his theoretical sensibility and wide-ranging scholarship." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology "...fills a sizeable gap in the history of anthropology's coverage of the development of 20th-century British schools of social anthropology. His care to documentary detail and narrative clarity has created a readable and interesting political history of British social anthropology." Journal of Anthropological Research "Unlike previous historical accounts,[Mills]gives greater attention to structural factors than to intellectual emphases or individual personalities in his analysis of the emergence of different academic cultures in anthropology programs [in the UK and the US]. An illuminating account." Choice "... a fascinating analysis of the political and institutional history of social history in Britain between the 1930s and the 1960s... Wonderfully written, with many insights and new information, the book also succeeds in setting up an analytical framework for understanding the development of our discipline in its British context." Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, "Unlike previous historical accounts, [Mills] gives greater attention to structural factors than to intellectual emphases or individual personalities in his analysis of the emergence of different academic cultures in anthropology programs [in the UK and the US]. An illuminating account." * Choice "David Mills's political history of social anthropology in the UK from the 1930s to the 1960s is increasingly valuable to British anthropologists and looks set to become a set textbook in the history of the discipline. ...there is much in this book that might prompt us to consider both what might have been, and what might yet be." * JRAI "That [Mills] has voided a parochial indulgence of an Oxford-centric agenda to the reading of the history of British social anthropology through its evolving identity politics while fully acknowledging the historical importance of Oxford anthropology is a tribute to his theoretical sensibility and wide-ranging scholarship." * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology "...fills a sizeable gap in the history of anthropology's coverage of the development of 20th-century British schools of social anthropology. His care to documentary detail and narrative clarity has created a readable and interesting political history of British social anthropology." * Journal of Anthropological Research "...a fascinating analysis of the political and institutional history of social history in Britain between the 1930s and the 1960s... Wonderfully written, with many insights and new information, the book also succeeds in setting up an analytical framework for understanding the development of our discipline in its British context." * Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, "David Mills's politicalhistory of social anthropology in the UK from the 1930s to the 1960s is increasingly valuable to British anthropologists and looks set to become a set textbook in the history of the discipline. ...threr is much in this book that might prompt us to consider both what might have been, and what might yet be." JRAI "That [Mills] has voided a parochial indulgence of an Oxford-centric agenda to the reading of the history of British social anthropology through its evolving identity politics while fully acknowledging the historical importance of Oxford anthropology is a tribute to his theoretical sensibility and wide-ranging scholarship." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology "...fills a sizeable gap in the history of anthropology's coverage of the development of 20th-century British schools of social anthropology. His care to documentary detail and narrative clarity has created a readable and interesting political history of British social anthropology." Journal of Anthropological Research "Unlike previous historical accounts,[Mills]gives greater attention to structural factors than to intellectual emphases or individual personalities in his analysis of the emergence of different academic cultures in anthropology programs [in the UK and the US]. An illuminating account." Choice "... a fascinating analysis of the political and institutional history of social history in Britain between the 1930s and the 1960s... Wonderfully written, with many insights and new information, the book also succeeds in setting up an analytical framework for understanding the development of our discipline in its British context." Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, "David Mills's political history of social anthropology in the UK from the 1930s to the 1960s is increasingly valuable to British anthropologists and looks set to become a set textbook in the history of the discipline. ...threr is much in this book that might prompt us to consider both what might have been, and what might yet be." · JRAI "That [Mills] has voided a parochial indulgence of an Oxford-centric agenda to the reading of the history of British social anthropology through its evolving identity politics while fully acknowledging the historical importance of Oxford anthropology is a tribute to his theoretical sensibility and wide-ranging scholarship." · The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology "...fills a sizeable gap in the history of anthropology's coverage of the development of 20th-century British schools of social anthropology. His care to documentary detail and narrative clarity has created a readable and interesting political history of British social anthropology." · Journal of Anthropological Research "Unlike previous historical accounts,[Mills]gives greater attention to structural factors than to intellectual emphases or individual personalities in his analysis of the emergence of different academic cultures in anthropology programs [in the UK and the US]. An illuminating account." · Choice "... a fascinating analysis of the political and institutional history of social history in Britain between the 1930s and the 1960s... Wonderfully written, with many insights and new information, the book also succeeds in setting up an analytical framework for understanding the development of our discipline in its British context." · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, "David Mills's political history of social anthropology in the UK from the 1930s to the 1960s is increasingly valuable to British anthropologists and looks set to become a set textbook in the history of the discipline. ...threr is much in this book that might prompt us to consider both what might have been, and what might yet be." JRAI "That [Mills] has voided a parochial indulgence of an Oxford-centric agenda to the reading of the history of British social anthropology through its evolving identity politics while fully acknowledging the historical importance of Oxford anthropology is a tribute to his theoretical sensibility and wide-ranging scholarship." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology "...fills a sizeable gap in the history of anthropology's coverage of the development of 20th-century British schools of social anthropology. His care to documentary detail and narrative clarity has created a readable and interesting political history of British social anthropology." Journal of Anthropological Research "Unlike previous historical accounts,[Mills]gives greater attention to structural factors than to intellectual emphases or individual personalities in his analysis of the emergence of different academic cultures in anthropology programs [in the UK and the US]. An illuminating account." Choice "... a fascinating analysis of the political and institutional history of social history in Britain between the 1930s and the 1960s... Wonderfully written, with many insights and new information, the book also succeeds in setting up an analytical framework for understanding the development of our discipline in its British context." Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: ideas, individuals, identities and institutions Chapter 2. Why disciplinary histories matter Chapter 3. A tale of two departments? Oxford and the LSE Chapter 4. The politics of disciplinary professionalisation Chapter 5. Anthropology at the end of empire Chapter 6. Tribes and territories Chapter 7. How not to apply anthropological knowledge: the RAI and its 'friends' Chapter 8. Anthropologists and 'race': social research in postcolonial Britain Chapter 9. Discipline on the defensive? Chapter 10. The uses of academic identity Appendix: Disciplining the archives Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Methodology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Lccn
2010-513411
Dewey Decimal
306.20941
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Social Science
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