A history of Oxford anthropology
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A history of Oxford anthropology
(Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 15)
Berghahn Books, 2007
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Peter Riviere
Chapter 1. Origins and Survivals: Tylor, Balfour and the Pitt Rivers Museum and their Role within Anthropology in Oxford 1883-1905
Christopher Gosden, Frances Larson and Alison Petch
Chapter 2. The Formative Years: the Committee for Anthropology 1905-38
Peter Riviere
Chapter 3. How All Souls got its Anthropologist
John Davis
Chapter 4. A Major Disaster to Anthropology? Oxford and Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
David Mills
Chapter 5. 'A feeling for form and pattern, and a touch of genius': E-P's Vision and the Institute, 1946-70
Wendy James
Chapter 6. Oxford and Biological Anthropology
Geoffrey Harrison
Chapter 7. Oxford Anthropology as an Extra-curricular Activity: OUAS and JASO
Robert Parkin
Chapter 8. Oxford Anthropology since 1970: through Schismogenesis to a new Testament
Jonathan Benthall
Appendix: Reflections on Oxford's Global Links
Compiled by Wendy James
Bibliography
Index
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