A history of Oxford anthropology

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A history of Oxford anthropology

edited by Peter Rivière

(Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 15)

Berghahn Books, 2009

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First published in hardback: 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index

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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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