After Tylor : British social anthropology, 1888-1951
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After Tylor : British social anthropology, 1888-1951
Athlone, 1999, c1995
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This paperback edition first published 1999
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Aimed at historians of the social sciences a nd at practising anthropologists, this text provides a broad history of social anthropology in Britain. It covers the re formation of anthropology, the Frazier movement, and more.
Table of Contents
- Prologue - Tylor and the reformation of anthropology
- centre and periphery - armchair anthropology, missionary ethnography and evolutionary theory
- animism, totemism and christianity - a pair of heterodox Scottish evolutionists
- from the armchair to the field - the Darwinian zoologist as ethnographer
- the Frazerian moment - evolutionary anthropology in disarray
- the revival of diffusionist ethnology
- from fieldwork to functionalism -Malinowski and the emergence of British social anthropology
- from cultural psychology to social structure - Radcliffe-Brown and the delimitation of social anthropology
- anthropological institutions, colonial interests and the first cohorts of social anthropologists
- epilogue - moment and tradition in the history of British social anthropology.
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