Before social anthropology : essays on the history of British anthropology

Summary: This volume explains aspects of British anthropology's past by placing people, events and institutions in their wider historical context. The essays follow a century of immense change from the foundation of British anthropology in the 1840s by examining a number of themes--innovations in ethnographic research and writing, institutional change and the professionalization of practice, and the redefinition of the content and boundaries that constituted anthropology. From these changes emerged new approaches during the 1920s and 1930s resulting in the triumph of social anthropology as an intellectual, academic and professional discipline after World War II.

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ISBN: 9783718652921
ISBN: 3718652927
ISBN: 9781136644177
ISBN: 1136644172
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 174 pages).
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Publisher: Chur, Switzerland ; Philadelphia : Harwood Academic Publishers, �1993.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:january.20 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-171) and index.
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