Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 221 Seiten)
Edition:
Open Access ebook edition
ISBN:
9781785336638
Series Statement:
Methodology and history in anthropology volume 19
Content:
Title page-Difficult Folk? -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Ch 1-Introduction -- Ch 2-Why disciplinaty histories matter -- Ch 3-A tale of two departments? -- Ch 4-The Politics of disciplinary professionalisation -- Ch 5-Anthropology at the end of empire -- Ch 6-Tribes and territories -- Ch 7-How not to apply anthropological knowledge -- Ch 8-Anthropologists and 'race' -- Ch 9-Discipline on the defensive? -- Ch 10-The uses of academic identity -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845454654
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845454500
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mills, David, 1969 - Difficult folk? New York, NY [u.a.] : Berghahn Books, 2010 ISBN 9781845454654
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845454500
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mills, David, 1969 - Difficult folk? New York [u.a.] : Berghahn Books, 2008 ISBN 1845454502
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845454500
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Ethnologie
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
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