UID:
edoccha_9958975950402883
Format:
1 online resource (232 p.)
ISBN:
1-78533-663-0
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1-282-62682-5
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9786612626821
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0-85745-031-X
Series Statement:
Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 19
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 effort
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84545-465-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84545-450-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780857450319
