After society : anthropological trajectories out of Oxford

Author(s)

• Pina-Cabral, João de
• Bowman, Glenn

Bibliographic Information

After society : anthropological trajectories out of Oxford

edited by João de Pina-Cabral and Glenn Bowman

（Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 39）

Berghahn Books, 2020

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Professionally, the immediate postcolonial period was over and neoliberal reforms were marginalizing the social sciences. Analytically, the poststructuralist critique of the notion of 'society' challenged a discipline that dubbed itself as 'social'. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors' anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.

Table of Contents

Introduction: After Society Joao Pina-Cabral and Glenn Bowman Part I: The Oxford Experience and Beyond Chapter 1. Plodding Towards Prosopography: Oxford Anthropology from 1976 on Jeremy MacClancy Chapter 2. Amor Fati and the Institute of Social Anthropology Glenn Bowman Chapter 3. The Lucky Anthropologist? Becoming an Anthropologist of Japan in Oxford Dolores P. Martinez Chapter 4. Lost and Found in Oxford Roger Just Chapter 5. Is Necessity the Mother of Invention? A. David Napier Part II: Ethnography as a Vocation Chapter 6. Changing Questions? Reflections on Anthropology in and out of Oxford since the 1980s David N. Gellner Chapter 7. The Fieldwork Tradition and the Quest for Essential Perplexities Signe Howell Chapter 8. Journeys of an Ethnographer: From Oxford to the Field and on to the Archives Sandra Ott Part III: Why Anthropology? Concluding Remarks Chapter 9. Why Anthropology? Structuralism and Since Timothy Jenkins Chapter 10. From Oxford to Cambridge: Chasing the 'Aka' Maryon McDonald Chapter 11. Mediterranean Equivoques at Oxford Joao Pina-Cabral Index

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• NCID: BC00369461
• ISBN:
  • 9781789207682
• LCCN: 2020015864
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 224 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN25
  • DC23 : 301
  • DC23 : 301.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Anthropology
  • LCSH : Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- England -- Oxford
  • LCSH : University of Oxford
  • LCSH : Anthropology -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Self -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA39743834